📢NEW GOVERNMENT STATS SHOW: - RECORD numbers of homeless children living in temporary accommodation - A six-year high in the number of households evicted by bailiffs due to a Section 21 eviction Polly Neate spoke about the escalating #HousingEmergency 👇 mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

An unpublished policy is being used to allocate housing in Southwark Council, leaving no homes for those with the highest housing need to bid on. We're supporting residents HASL who are challenging this disorganised and unfair approach 👇 pilc.org.uk/news/trapped-i…

Our banner from our protest in April with the number of homeless kids is already out of date as the numbers have continued to soar 😡 We need high-quality, 3, 4, 5 bed council homes to solve the devastating homeless crisis🏘️ 📽️youtube.com/watch?v=JEXTvE… x.com/Shelter/status…

🚨BREAKING: new government stats show 151,630 children in England are currently homeless in temporary accommodation with their families. ⚠️ This is the HIGHEST number since records began. It’s shameful – we need urgent government action to tackle the housing emergency.

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An unpublished policy is being used to allocate housing in Southwark Council, leaving no homes for those with the highest housing need to bid on. We're supporting residents HASL who are challenging this disorganised and unfair approach 👇 pilc.org.uk/news/trapped-i…

🚨Southwark Council agrees to immediately stop directly handing homes out to people waiting for housing There were ‘no homes’ on the bidding system so 3 families threatened to take the council to court after what my exclusive report in Southwark News revealed. HASL

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🎉Our members have won a huge victory getting Southwark council to immediately stop their unlawful direct offer policy which meant there were no homes to bid on for months. Huge thanks to Public Interest Law Centre. and also Southwark News southwarknews.co.uk/area/southwark…

£4,264 a month to rent a flat on the site of the Heygate Estate rightmove.co.uk/properties/151…

making more affordable housing by making the current affordable housing unaffordable

Labour tackling the Housing Crisis 🤦🏻‍♀️ "However, this is also likely to add to the government’s housing benefit bill across the period as many social renters receive housing support" Joined up thinking from the adults in charge!

Our statement on the Dagenham fire:

Good chance you will hear the name "Brian Martin" in the news surrounding the Grenfell report on Wednesday. The civil servant who missed multiple chances to stop the fire is now selling his services as an expert at building safety tribunals: thetimes.com/uk/society/art…

Such a great homeless rights training with our organising team this morning helping to refresh and build our knowledge and skills. There were so many great contributions and questions. ❤ ✊ 🏠

My The Guardian story: Black and minority ethnic universal credit claimants disproportionately likely to be hit with benefit sanctions, new official statistics published for the first time shows theguardian.com/society/2024/s…