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Blog by Joanne, private renter and Shelter campaigner from Bournemouth. Joanne has recently been campaigning to end unfit housing. She wrote an open letter –…
End Income Discrimination: Live blog
This blog rounds up everything we’re doing in the fight to end housing benefit discrimination. We’re campaigning to end housing benefit discrimination – and we’re…
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What’s in the Social Housing Regulation Bill? Five key changes and what they mean
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) published a draft of the Social Housing Regulation Bill (alongside further
Spring Statement: avoiding eviction or eating – the stark choice facing struggling renters with frozen housing benefit
Fuel bills are skyrocketing, in turn pushing up the cost of food, transport and other family essentials. So, responses to the Chancellor’s Spring Budget have quite rightly focussed on the real terms cut to Universal Credit, which will push 1.3m people below the poverty line.
After all, people having to claim Universal Credit to make ends meet have already cut back to the bone. There are no more savings to be made after it was cut by £20 per week … Read more
Risk of growing homelessness as cuts to discretionary housing payments deepen housing costs crisis
Families already struggling with rising rents, frozen housing allowance, and skyrocketing fuel bills will now face a cut to a
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