Waiting for the Housing Buses
This week the Government showed their hand on rough sleeping and social housing. In what could be described as a sensible series of coordinated announcements, the Government has released both its Rough Sleeping Strategy, (to tackle one of the most extreme manifestations of the housing crisis) followed the very next day by the long awaited…
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LivShare: Co-Living without the expensive add-ons
LivShare creator Andy Redfearn shares his views on the concept and what he hopes to achieve with the model
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Transformation Through Innovation – reflections on the Freedom2Work project
Commonweal’s Policy and Communications Coordinator, Edward Lowe, reflects on his experience meeting individuals supported by the Freedom2Work project.
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Wheelchair users should be able to rent wheelchair accessible homes
Eleanor Bowden, CEO of Community Sponsors Homes (CSH) discusses the need to increase the availability of wheelchair accessible homes for rent and how Commonweal are supporting CSH to achieve this aim.
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Existing shared housing solutions fail to meet the requirements of non-resident parents…This is a clear social injustice and needs to change
In our latest guest blog, Kathryn Muir from the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research provides her thoughts on her research on non-resident parents
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Freedom to Achieve
In the latest in our series of guest blogs, Professor Jo Richardson, independent evaluator for the Freedom2Work project, provides her thoughts on the project
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