Shocking new data from Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

🚨145,800 - Record no. of children in temp accom
🚨15,950 - Record no. of households in bed & breakfast since 1998
🚨59,850 - Record no. of Main Duty Acceptances since the 2017 Homelessness Reduction Act

With a #PlanForHousing 🏘️we CAN solve this.

Benefit cuts like the benefit cap & the bedroom tax, alongside housing benefit payments not rising to keep up with private sector rents, are having devastating impacts on low-income families.

It is govt's responsibility to ensure low-income families have enough money to live on.

Important The News Agents investigation by Lewis Goodall

Record numbers of children are homeless - disrupting education, affecting life chances & putting huge pressure on families

The next government must end this scandal. We need a #PlanForHousing that ends child homelessness

Housing association chairs from the north came together to discuss all things housing🏘️

Lots of constructive debate but everyone in agreement that we need all political parties to commit to a long-term plan ahead of #GE24

We can solve this housing crisis with a #PlanForHousing

Great to be in Cambridge at the NHF’s East of England Leaders Forum talking about all things social housing & our general election campaign

Thanks to everyone who came to the event for joining us in  calling on all political parties to commit to a long-term  #PlanForHousing 🏡

“Social Housing providers received only £200mill through the building safety fund' compared to £2bill granted to private building owners.
 
Housing associations & their tenants shouldn’t have to foot the bill for remediation works. We need more funding to make these homes safe.

We welcome 'The Homes for All' report, which echoes our calls for a long-term #PlanForHousing 🏘️

'Everyone should have a home that is comfortable and safe, in a thriving community where they can flourish.' - Archbishop of Canterbury

With a long-term plan, we can solve this housing crisis.

Good Big Issue article about #HousingCrisis covering:

🏘 National Housing Federation analysis of social housing waiting lists across the country

🗣 our campaign calling on all political parties to commit to a long-term #PlanForHousing 🏡

🔗 Link to our digital campaign toolkit

See below 👀⬇️

'With 3.8m people on council waiting lists...the need for delivery of more #Socialhousing gets more urgent by the day'

As referenced by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage, OBE our report with Shelter shows building 90,000 social rented homes makes economic sense, adding over £50bn to the UK economy.

Good to see these proposals, particularly the focus on affordable homes.

Building on brownfield land alone will not deliver enough homes to fix the housing crisis, so it’s right to consider how our approach to the green belt can better serve our country and our communities.

It’s right to look at how green belt land can better serve our communities & boost supply of affordable housing.

A considered & strategic approach to building on the green belt alongside a long-term #PlanForHousing is vital to delivering enough homes to solve the housing crisis.

Our new research with Altair shows that demand for #SupportedHousing will grow significantly in the years ahead.

We need a #PlanForHousing that funds vital supported and older people’s homes.

housing.org.uk/resources/how-…

Without the right homes with the right support, more people will be at risk of homelessness, will face longer stays in residential or institutional care and will have longer hospital stays.

We need a #PlanForHousing that funds vital supported and older people’s homes.

Our new research shows that demand for #SupportedHousing will grow significantly in the years ahead.

With a rising and ageing population, we need to make sure everyone in our communities has a safe place to call home and that we leave no one behind.

housing.org.uk/resources/how-…

Today we launch new research on how much #SupportedHousing we will need by 2040. It shows supply is not meeting demand.

Without a long-term plan for supported housing, 1000s of people could go without the support they need.

We need a #PlanForHousing that leaves no one behind.

No fault evictions cause untold upheaval & stress for private renters, forcing them to uproot their lives & even putting some at risk of #homelessness .

Gov must fulfil its promise to end #NoFaultEvictions & build secure and affordable #SocialHousing .

theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Alongside 36 other organisations, we have written to the Home Secretary @jamescleverly urging him to reconsider proposals to fine & imprison people forced to sleep on our streets #CriminalJusticeBill

Join us & Crisis & contact your MP urging them to stand against these plans

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We welcome this report and are pleased to see recommendations around the need for longer-term and more flexible funding arrangements from government to support delivery echoing our calls for a #PlanForHousing .

England is in a housing emergency.

Millions of people are being let down by a failing system, but it doesn't have to be this way.

We want to work with the next govt to end the #HousingCrisis & are calling on all parties to work with us & commit to a long-term #PlanForHousing 🏠