Today marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. It's one of the most pervasive social injustices we...

Commonweal Housing has partnered with seven front-line organisations as part of its 2021 Call for New Ideas, the charity’s partnership...

Local councils could hold the key to a better regulated, cost-controlled exempt accommodation sector, if offered greater powers according...

The exempt accommodation sector has been exploited by some investors, creating “corrupt structures” that allow providers to “maximise...

Regulation covering exempt accommodation is not fit for purpose according to the Regulator for Social Housing (RSH), with Deputy Chief...

The government is determined to “drive out the minority of landlords who provide poor-quality accommodation and insufficient support” in...

The housing crisis in Britain in-part emerged due to poor policy choices around housing access, with the exempt accommodation sector...

It seems that we are at that point in the Summer season again, where the headlines harbour news of supposed crisis after crisis at the...

As coronavirus restrictions lift, vulnerable migrants with NRPF are facing the prospect of returning to life without shelter.

Csenge (Cicy) Földvári-Nagy, recipient of the Jane Slowey Memorial Bursary 2020, blogs on the findings of her outstanding dissertation research at the University of Birmingham's School of Social Policy.

Commonweal Housing's annual review calls for urgent improvements to housing provision for those most harshly affected by the COVID19 pandemic.

A formidable champion of the charity sector and campaigner who rarely rested, Jane Slowey was at the heart of change in the housing and...

Ben Phillips-Farmer reflects on Rentstart's 20-year history of harnessing the PRS as a route out of homelessness, including five years in partnership with Commonweal.

Megan Fereday reflects on the UK's first ever LGBT+ retirement community, and why older LGBT+ people need access to safe and affirming housing.

Leading domestic abuse charity, Solace, Commonweal Housing and Southwark Council, are today advocating for strong and effective...

With youth unemployment at record levels, never has it been more important to provide a housing offer which enables young people to live, work, earn and learn.

Quaker Social Action has unlocked £10,000 in match-funded donations from Commonweal Housing by reaching its Big Give Challenge target in...

A new report by Hibiscus Initiatives, and supported by Commonweal, finds that the majority of potential female victims of trafficking...

A blog by Dominic Bradley, Chief Executive of Spring Housing Association. It is almost exactly a year since we published ‘ Exempt from...

Too many women are forced to choose between living with abuse or living on the streets. That’s because the majority of survivors of...

Today, the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government has published its Social Housing White Paper, titled The Charter for...

The impacts of the housing crisis are wide reaching and intersectional: colliding with other social issues like cuts to specialist...

For people in contact with the criminal justice system, access to safe housing is vital to moving onto independent and stable lives. Yet...

In the midst of a national housing crisis, it is obvious to most of us that too many people are locked out of safe, secure housing in the...