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What will the Renters’ Rights Act mean in practice?

Join us at Northern Housing Festival to explore the key policy changes and their real-world implications for tenants, landlords, and housing professionals

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Issue 62 of CIH Unlocked 🔓 is live!

In this issue's lead, we speak with Eastlight Homes CEO Emma Palmer about her role as the government's disability and access ambassador for housing and why the need for inclusive homes has never been more urgent ➡️ buff.ly/6Dj4xaw

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🔦 Session Spotlight 🔦

Join us for this roundtable for the opportunity to come together with fellow housing professionals, policymakers, charities and partners to share insights and solutions aimed at preventing and reducing homelessness

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Join the discussion on how existing homes can be adapted, reconfigured, and repurposed to offer choice, independence and community connection

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Great to see this news today⬇️ Here's a 🧵with CIH's reaction from @rachaelwhsg.bsky.social

🗣️"CIH welcomes the government’s launch of funding, as announced in the National Plan to End Homelessness, to support community based and voluntary organisations tackling homelessness and rough sleeping.

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Come together with experts, practitioners, and community voices to unpack the realities behind the headlines, and how accurate data and compassionate communication can help challenge myths and build trust

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Are you a social housing resident keen to shape decisions affecting millions of tenants across England?

On our Tenant Advisory Panel (TAP), you can make a real difference to the lives of others and learn invaluable skills.

👉Apply to join TAP by 30 Jan www.housing.org.uk/news-and-blo...

The programme for our Care Closer to Home conference in London on 24 February is now live 🎉

This event brings together colleagues from across the system to examine what’s needed to make neighbourhood working a success — the kind of collaboration that will underpin a radically reconfigured NHS.

When a supported housing scheme closes, those who rely on its vital services suffer most. But, other public services are forced to make crisis interventions at higher costs – impacting us all.

The government must commit to a long-term funding settlement for supported housing.

"I want the Government to understand how much supported housing helps people get where they need to be.”

Living in supported housing 'changes everything' for people like Mark, yet one in 10 supported housing schemes are at imminent risk of closure.

Labour must be bolder to turn around the state’s failures on homelessness Labour's homelessness strategy is not enough to end homelessness for good in England, writes MP Paula Barker after Housing First snub,

Over 380,000 people in England will be spending the festive season homeless, including 175,000 children.

We need to be far bolder if we are going to tackle this crisis.

My piece for @bigissue.com on the cross-government strategy for ending homelessness.

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@mel-williams.bsky.social and Sarah McClinton, both past Presidents of ADASS, join @impower.bsky.social
for a session on how councils can replace siloed services with a more inclusive, lifelong approach to supporting young people into adulthood.

#ncasc25

A tomorrow's Autumn Budget, we are asking Chancellor Rachel Reeves to save our supported housing with emergency funding – ensuring that families just like Mawushi's have the support they need to live independently.

🔗Read Mawushi's full story here: startsathome.org.uk/stories/mawu...

We warmly welcome the news that, for the first time, housing status has been included in @nhsengland.bsky.social's Statement of Information on Health Inequalities, setting out what information Trusts and Integrated Care Boards should collect to meet their equalities duties.

Two-thirds of councils in England have not prosecuted a single landlord in the past three years

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I wonder whether this is correlated with the disappearance of supported housing for young people, which is drastically underfunded...we know that supported housing takes pressure off social care, so without it the costs can fall to social care departments.

Our latest survey of Directors of adult social services, published today, shows that high-cost social care for young adults has risen by almost a third in the past year.

Read the report: adass.org.uk/documents/ad...

#AutumnSurvey2025 #AutumnBudget2025 #NCASC2025

Breaking the Cycle Homeless Link's campaign for a funding system fit to end homelessness

See our Breaking the Cycle report more more measures the Government could embrace to end the current emergency and start building a country free from homelessness. homeless.org.uk/what-we-do/c...

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Out today, @pathwayuk.bsky.social's annual report shines a light on the huge achievements of the NHS hospital homelessness teams supported through our Pathway Partnership Programme (PPP) 👇
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Councils’ temporary accommodation bill to reach £3bn by end of decade, LGA finds English councils’ spending on temporary accommodation is likely to reach £3bn by the end of the decade, the Local Government Association has found.

Councils need to invest in supported housing as well as general needs social housing to cut the temporary accommodation bill. Decommissioning supported housing is a false economy www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/council... @insidehousing.bsky.social

Thousands of young people face homelessness this winter as crisis worsens The North West and Yorkshire and the Humber are among the worst affected places as homelessness is set to rise this season

23,500 young people facing homelessness this winter in worsening crisis, warns leading charity via @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... The article shows how important #supportedhousing is to help young people make the transition to adulthood, and avoid homelessness

Supporting survivors of domestic abuse must be core to our fight against homelessness The government has a generational opportunity to tackle the homelessness emergency and women must be at the forefront of that strategy, writes MP Paula Barker.

Domestic abuse is a housing issue. The cycle of abuse and homelessness is one we can and must break.

Thank you to @kathyswinds.bsky.social & @insidehousing.bsky.social

www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/supporting-survivors-of-domestic-abuse-must-be-core-to-our-fight-against-homelessness-94622

Sanctionable Failures: Universal Credit’s failing sanctions regime and the harm it causes - Public Law Project New research shows that the Universal Credit sanctions system fails on its own terms

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🚨 New research: DWP sanctions are counterproductive 🚨

Our study with the Central England Law Centre reveals that #UniversalCredit sanctions fail on their own terms and causes serious hardship.

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"Adopting a whole housing approach for those fleeing domestic abuse is essential. We need more #supportedhousing schemes that recognise that healing and rebuilding a life requires more than just a roof overhead." Important point from @paulabarkermp.bsky.social