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🏚️New Temporary Accommodation stats from @luhc today🏚️ 🚨There are 131,370 children homeless in TA 🚨That's 4,379 classrooms full of homeless children 🚨104,510 homeless households. The highest since records began.

The only way to stop the dispute from escalating is to offer some credible and workable solutions - you can do it UCEA!

Really pleased to be part of this collection edited by @Sarah_Hughes90 , looking forward to reading it! My chapter looks at how the law has been mobilised to challenge the bedroom tax

Seconded!

Read all about our third Urban Studies Seminar Series event in Japan. A fantastic three days of talks and visits exploring shrinking domestic space in Asia crisiscultures.co.uk/articles/urban…… Mel Nowicki Tim White Urban Studies Foundation

This landlord had 40 people living in a 4-bed house, with one man living in a shack made out of pallets and covered with tarp in the garden. He's only banned from renting for 5 years, and hasn't even been added to the government's rogue landlord database! novaramedia.com/2023/09/13/cra…

We’re back in Greater Manchester this week, meeting the families whose journeys we’ve been following 2+ years. The focus: their stories of navigating family homelessness, temporary accommodation & debt Our research report is out later this month 📔 Prof Katherine Brickell Mel Nowicki

🚨Tomorrow is launch day of our 'The Debt Trap' report in parliament. Join 💻 to hear more about findings, + lived experience experts sharing their stories on debt and life in/beyond temporary accommodation #debttrap #familyhomelessness #homelessness Debt Trap Nation Mel Nowicki

🚨Family homelessness is an urgent national issue 💳 Debt is causing, lengthening & outlasting family homelessness How❓ Why ❓& What actions are needed❓ Read our NEW Debt Trap Nation research report launched at Households in Temporary Accommodation APPG sharedhealthfoundation.org.uk/publications/t… 🧵(1) Summary findings

A piece by Prof Katherine Brickell and myself in the The Conversation out today about transport poverty- parents in temporary accommodation are spending up to £300 per month on buses to get their children to school theconversation.com/homeless-mothe… via The Conversation

Urban Futures is at The University of Zurich, Switzerland, today Prof Katherine Brickell presenting Debt Trap Nation research with Mel Nowicki & Shared Health Foundation on debt, temporary accommodation, and family homelessness. King's Geography Report here: sharedhealthfoundation.org.uk/publications/t…

Putting the lives of people at the heart of politics...today Households in Temporary Accommodation APPG & photographer @Anthony_Luvera held an exhibition in parliament telling families' stories of temporary accommodation. #endhomelessness Chuffed to see our Debt Trap Nation report in the APPG's 'journey of change'

Tens of thousands of council houses are empty despite a national housing crisis. Some we’ve found have been vacant for more than 20 years. We’ve been working with ⁦KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner⁩ to find out why. Our report here: news.sky.com/story/families…

Just wow. Symptomatic of a totally dysfunctional state that has lost all sense of the importance of housing and home as a basic human need

1st Homeless Families Conference by Shared Health Foundation Mel Nowicki and I called for changes to housing allocation policy nationally - Debt Trap Nation The British Academy research shows families in temp accomm trapped by punitive debt rules Thanks Andy Burnham for warm-up act! 😉

For all 2 years of his young life, Anabel's son has lived in a hostel. She requested a suitability review of the temporary accommodation from Lewisham Council over a year ago but they are still trapped there. The council say nothing is wrong! 😮😡 independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Our little project on the big Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) stage. Thanks to Shared Health Foundation for ongoing collaboration. & The Magpie Project for their ‘campaign for kitchens’ materials which we shared. 🖊️ their petition here: change.org/p/no-child-in-…

Prof Katherine Brickell and Mel Nowicki 's work on Debt-trap urbanism is reaching the news in the UK. Their research was partially funded by a #USFPandemicandCities grant. Check more about it: kcl.ac.uk/news/thousands… inews.co.uk/news/housing/h… insidehousing.co.uk/home/council-r… urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/grante…

🚨🧵With Mel Nowicki & Fraser William Curry I have been uncovering the scandal that are local authority rules on housing allocation which are banning thousands of indebted homeless families in England from social housing. Thanks Vicky Spratt for exposure: inews.co.uk/news/housing/c…