Francesca Albanese
@CescaAlbanese
Director of Policy & Social Change at homelessness charity @crisis_uk and trustee @justlifeuk #EndHomelessness with a love of cooking and art. Views are my own.
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https://www.crisis.org.uk/ending-homelessness/homelessness-knowledge-hub/ 22-10-2013 19:57:26
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Excellent piece from Glen Keogh on the human realities of rough sleeping, the real solutions, and the madness of criminalising people thetimes.co.uk/article/a-fine…
'Imagine you're head to the pavement and you dread footsteps coming towards you because it's you that's going to be a victim of crime.'
Crisis chief exec, Matt Downie says the bill that could criminalise homelessness is 'counterproductive and cruel'.
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It should not be govt policy to arrest people simply because they do not have a roof over their head. We would urge the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the Home Secretary James Cleverly🇬🇧 to listen to their colleagues calls and drop these punitive measures. bit.ly/3TIX8Zc
Last couple of days to apply for a brilliant role in Crisis Scotland policy & comms team. Lots on the housing & homelessness agenda in 🏴 over the next 12 months. You will be joining a highly motivated & dedicated team. Deadline tomorrow (10th) at 23:59 👇 jobs.crisis.org.uk/Job/JobDetail?…
Last week's sig. 📈 in #homelessness & rough sleeping stats showed we need a long term plan but there are also short term solutions that could make a huge difference to councils in this week's Budget starting with lifting the TA subsidy cap as outlined by Matt Downie 👇
Yesterday saw rough sleeping rise again by 27%. For all of us working to address #homelessness we know it is a solvable problem and things can be different (as this graph shows only 3 yrs ago). My blog on how we got here & the opportunity to set this right crisis.org.uk/about-us/the-c…
Front page of The Scotsman today👇
With numbers in the homelessness system at record levels, it's vital the Scottish Gov invests in new affordable and social homes, while pressing on with plans to prevent homelessness from happening in the first place scotsman.com/news/politics/…
Really powerful front page from the The Daily Record today - cuts to the housing budget won't just make it harder to meet house building targets, they will make it harder to meet all of our other aspirations as a nation dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/…
Our amazing CrisisMerseyside participated in last night's screening of Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son - an inspiring film by Lorna Tucker based on her own lived experience of #homelessness and importantly the solutions that can end it. Worth a watch & being shown in cinemas over the next month 👇