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A State system that enforces destitution; sets out to deny people the opportunity to support themselves and removes housing options; whilst at the same time preventing them from accessing even rudimentary benefits or assistance is, in our opinion, a social injustice. A major social injustice. But the asylum system does just that. That is why…

The Peer Landlord scheme has now been up and running for over two years. That’s two years of offering tenants a shared, reasonably priced and supportive home. Both Thames Reach and Catch22 continue to deliver the Peer Landlord project – from recruiting tenants, ensuring rent is paid, providing training to Peer Landlords and generally managing all…

Commonweal’s principle objective is to be an incubator of new ideas and new models – finding housing solutions to a range of different social injustices.  We are an action learning charity seeking to test new models; where they are proven to work we encourage and facilitate their replication; if the models don’t we  ensure we…

Hair brained schemes and crackpot ideas…..it can be said that this has been a theme of my nearly 30 years working in housing.  Alongside others, I have been involved with helping to identify new solutions to problems others may have considered unsolvable or had simply filed under too difficult.  Although starting off in mainstream housing management,…