NEW: England's quarterly homelessness stats are out - more bleak reading.

There are 145,800 homeless children living in temporary accommodation - the highest ever recorded and up 15% on last year

There are 112,660 homeless households - up 12% in a year and the highest on record

So, talk me through how it works if every single graduate is a male economist or a medic. Where are the jobs for them, and what happens to everyone else and, indeed, everything else that needs to happen in a functional society?

This is both heartbreaking & maddening.
The creative industries account for more than £100bn to UK economy, 15.9% of all UK service exports.; there is more production space here than anywhere in world outside of Hollywood. RT if agree!
#supportthearts theguardian.com/education/2024…

Only eleven wealthy tax evaders were prosecuted in the latest year; not one person has yet been prosecuted for the vast state-sanctioned PPE swindle.

Yet carers on tiny incomes face the full hammer of the law. Why is the story always the same? theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Across England we're handing £9bn a year in housing benefit to private landlords.

In some areas, including some seaside and post-industrial cities and towns, but also Enfield and Brent, over £1 in every £3 of rent paid is paid through HB.

So what's going on??

Joining us this week are the FPRN - we discuss the issue of fuel poverty and the work being done to tackle this. With Prof Lucie Middlemiss Nicola Willand & Neil Simcock and hosted by Prof Matt Hannon @matthannon.bsky.social 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭 🌻 Rebecca Ford - ALSO WE ARE NOW ON LINKEDIN - SEARCH 'LOCAL ZERO'

📢Fully funded PhD studentship 📢Human Geography, Cardiff University, UK:
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Applications welcome for research on unconventional water, political ecology and critical development studies.

Contact me to discuss proposals informally.

My first post-PhD paper is out! I hopefully explained the concept of 'low-carbon gentrification' a bit further, identifying three avenues through which heating transitions can reshape inner-city neighbourhoods:
➡️link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Scrapping this commitment would be hugely damaging - not just for people in fuel poverty, but for housing providers and industry crying out for government leadership and some semblance of certainty on energy efficiency policy. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

The film is being shown on BBC 4 on Tuesday at 10pm.

You can watch the trailer here.

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✨Robinson and Williams introduce the concept of ambient vulnerability and they illustrate how this concept is integral to our understanding of social and #ecological vulnerability.

🌍Read this insightful work #OpenAccess in GEC: doi.org/10.1016/j.gloe…

1 in every 43 homes in Liverpool are long-term vacant

Meanwhile 14,000 people are on the housing waiting list & temporary accommodation costs for councils are soaring

📢 Job alert/Phd opportunities in energy retrofit and decarbonisation Manchester Geography UoM Urban Institute Manchester Energy. Pls spread the word:
a) 3 year post-doc in place-based retrofit & regeneration (focusing on #energyadvice ) as part of place theme Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC) (jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…).
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This is a critical point, well made, in latest National Housing Federation advocacy. How do we pay for everything we know we need when fiscal rules reign supreme?

And it's true not just for social housing, but public infrastructure everywhere. Not least in energy and climate resilience too...

To what extent can energy advice reduce #energypoverty ? Together with Neil Simcock we recently published a paper on the topic in CriticalSocialPolicy, based on the long-standing Manchester Energy Advice Lab (in operation since 2019). My work on the paper was part-supported by Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC).…

You think getting aid into Gaza is easy? Think again.

Our expert discussion and Q&A on #fuelpoverty in the private rental sector is happening on Wednesday! Join Lord Richard Best, Dr Neil Simcock, Dr Jenny Harris, and Dr Richard Waldron for an in-depth discussion. You can still register: fuelpovertyresearch.net/events/event/e…

Ahead of #FuelPovertyAwarenessDay we've published a comprehensive summary report of all our fuel poverty evidence from over the last year covering:
1⃣ Effects of fuel poverty
2⃣Groups at risk
3⃣Policy analysis
4⃣Solutions
Find PDF & accessible versions 👉 fuelpovertyresearch.net/comment/fuel-p…

'Sustainable aviation fuel' is the opposite of sustainable. Either it snatches food from the mouths of the poor, by converting it into fuel; or it leads to an expansion of the agricultural frontier, which means the felling of forests, draining of wetlands etc.🧵

An exciting moment for ACCESS - looking forward to applications that make a difference in bringing social science to bear on environment and climate challenges ACCESS Network