Housing Benefit cuts will make people homeless and drive them away from jobs
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 by Richard Exell Posted in Welfare reform, child poverty, homelessness | No Comments »As specialist organisations have time to evaluate the likely effect of the Housing Benefit cuts, it is becoming clear that families will be forced into homelessness and child poverty will be exacerbated. The changes will force families to move away ...
Budget 2010: Cutting Benefits by Stealth
Thursday, June 24th, 2010 by Moussa Haddad Posted in Inequality, Welfare reform, homelessness, livelihoods | 4 Comments »The headline announcements were bad enough. Largely due to the increase in the highly regressive VAT, it is, as the IFS put it, ‘likely that the overall impact of [the Budget’s taxation] measures was regressive’. George Osborne’s claims that this ...
Thousands of homeless people have mental health problems – it’s time something was done to help them
Monday, July 6th, 2009 by Michelle Southby Posted in homelessness | 5 Comments »Around a third of rough sleepers on London's streets have a diagnosed mental health problem. While that's sobering enough, the really shocking fact is that this figure has remained static for more than a decade. Without more targeted action, not ...
