A new analysis shows how government policy led to thousands more overcrowded households in the years ahead of the pandemic.
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Record numbers of people are in work but the number of those in employment and in poverty is also rising.
A survey of food bank users found nearly 60% couldn’t afford to adequately heat their homes.
The government has had to rethink its roll-out of Universal Credit – but small tweaks to the system won’t prevent people on housing benefit from being evicted.
Administrative errors and negative stereotypes lead landlords to discriminate against people on housing benefit.
It was meant to provide a more streamlined and coherent system – but it isn’t working.
The rollout of the new benefit system will not be paused – but it is causing real hardship.
Research shows that when the government cuts housing benefit, it harms the mental health of those affected.
High rents and benefits restrictions have led to spiralling costs when it comes to housing London’s homeless.
The budget contained some major housing reforms, but the chancellor had no answer to the sector’s number-one problem.
David Cameron has tried to claim the clothes of social justice for the Conservatives. It’s time he took them off.
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Associate Professor (Housing Policy), Adelaide University, and Research Associate, ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, University of Essex
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Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Housing Economics and Director, UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Social Policy, University of York
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Glasgow
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Senior Research Fellow, University of York
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Professor of Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Housing Research, Adelaide University
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Research Associate. CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield Hallam University
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Associate professor (Social Policy), Nottingham Trent University
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Research Fellow, Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Huddersfield
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Lecturer in Nutrition, King's College London
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Reader in Employment and Head of the Decent Work and Productivity Research Centre, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Director of External Programmes, Centre for Advanced Management Education, University of Stirling
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Lancaster University