solidarity with the occupation
(anything we can help with?)

🪅👀🏚did you see our temporary accommodation piñata get destroyed outside the Department for Housing yesterday? Temporary accommodation shouldn't exist because we should all have the good council homes we need!

Homeless London families marched on government offices and served housing secretary Michael Gove an eviction notice this morning.

mylondon.news/news/south-lon…

A great opportunity in my team at National Housing Federation ; if you're up on housing data and want to use your analytical skills to help end the housing crisis, I want to hear from you!
jobtrain.co.uk/nhf/Job/JobDet…

Happy #TransDayOfVisibility ! 🏳️‍⚧️

1⃣ in 3⃣ trans individuals experience #homelessness , but often face discrimination both accessing and within services

Today we want to highlight 3⃣🔑 steps to improving access and the quality of care for trans individuals:

#TDOV2023

The deadline for The Orwell Prize is midnight tonight.

If you write about or research homelessness, do submit to the Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness. I'm honoured to be one of the judges this year and look forward to reading

orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-pri…

🚨 Applications for The Orwell Prize for Journalism and The Orwell Prize
for Reporting Homelessness close on 31/03/24. Inspired by George Orwell’s ambition to ‘make political writing into an art’, the awards are free to enter and winners receive £3000. 🔗 bit.ly/3TH4f5L

In 1933, George Orwell woke readers up to the reality of homelessness. Now, we need your help to tell a new story. Our judges are searching for brave, evidence-based reporting - there's a cash prize, plus publication for the best new work. Find out more: bit.ly/orwellprize24

We are delighted to share the programme for our rescheduled online conference - on 9-10th May 2024.

Sign up for a place here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-grass…

anyone remember the Hackney Homeless People's Festival in 1994 or know where I might find someone who does?

hackneyhistory.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/hac…

squallmagazine.com/f/f06-34-hackn…

CAMPAIGN WIN

The ONS has u-turned on plans to stop collecting data on deaths of people experiencing homelessness, something we started 2024 campaigning against.

Our Gill Taylor who led on this for MoH responds here:
museumofhomelessness.org/news/campaign-…

📸@anthonyluvera

18th European Research Conference on #Homelessness 🔛

Have you submitted your abstract yet❓

📊 We particularly encourage submissions for our special stream on data collection methods and ongoing national, regional and local level counts.

Find out more:🔗bit.ly/4bm2fqf

The Homelessness and Inclusion Health Barometer 2024 report published today is the first of its kind from Pathway and Crisis. It reveals the national crisis facing both our health and housing systems. pathway.org.uk/resources/baro… 🧵1/9

The History of Experiences (HEX) conference was fabulous. I've come away inspired by excellent papers on life-writing, oral history, memorialisation, commemoration + much more. Thank you for having my paper! Now I'm off to learn more about how Finland is combatting homelessness