Modular-Podular living: progress or pragmatism
In my last blog, way back in the pre-Trumpian days of October 2016, I mused whether it was sensible to develop or promote less-than-ideal housing solutions, or whether settling for adequate might undermine the achievement of the best. That blog considered two manifestations of the current housing crisis: the spread of tent encampments of European…
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Cold, wet, and homeless in January
Our new Policy & Communications coordinator reflects on the hardships faced by rough sleepers in this most unforgiving of months
Read MoreMarking World AIDS Day
We’ve come a long way since the AIDS crisis first emerged, when so many lost their lives. Today, HIV treatment can now reduce the amount of the virus in the bloodstream to ‘undetectable’ levels, meaning it cannot be transmitted. But it’s not over. Thankfully medical advances now mean HIV doesn’t have to stand in the…
Read MoreChildren on the Edge, the evolution of the Re-Unite project
2017 will mark the 10th anniversary of the publication of the Corston Report, the seminal review of vulnerable women in the criminal justice system that followed the tragic death of six women at Styal Prison. Baroness Corston’s review, outlining the need for a distinct, radically different, visibly-led, strategic, proportionate, holistic, woman-centred, integrated approach was published…
Read MoreLess desirable solutions to social injustice?
I have been thinking recently about our strap line ‘Housing solutions to social injustice’ and indeed have written in previous blogs about how proud and continually energised I am by it – it sums up in five words exactly what Commonweal is all about. To date we have always interpreted this as Commonweal providing…
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