🔎🏡 FEANTSA is on the lookout for initiatives that have successfully transformed vacant spaces into affordable #HousingSolutions .

If you've been involved in the development of such projects, share your insights by filling in the form 📝bit.ly/3xwxzmX

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“Making housing a priority public health intervention not only presents a pivotal opportunity, but a moral imperative. The health of our communities depends on it.” Excellent editorial in The Lancet on the role of housing in improving our health thelancet.com/journals/lance…

As our director of operations Lee Buss-Blair FCIH said last week: 'To see another large year-on-year increase in the number of people sleeping rough in London should be deeply worrying for us all – even if it is not unexpected.'

'Getting the count right, and understanding the issues around how we count people, is the first step. The next is designing and delivering services with a gendered lens, in order to serve all people.'

homelessnessimpact.org/news/ending-ho…

💬 Opinion | Cultural spaces can become a sanctuary for homeless people

The homeless community is brimming with untapped talent and deserves to be represented in museums, says David John Tovey.

Read: ow.ly/xg1y50RuX5a

Over 20% of the people at Crisis have experience of homelessness. But we consult with many more when we plan projects, policies & fundraising activities. We have a network of remunerated 'Experts by Experience' & are recruiting for more. Interested? crisis.org.uk/about-us/lates…

📢New paper on student food insecurity. Implications for widening participation, access and policy Paul Stretesky Emily Round

Predicting Food Insecurity Among UK University Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Public Health Nutrition | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3UFVv02

Some reflections from our recent Liberated Method conference.

changingfuturesnorthumbria.co.uk/liberating-pub…

A peer research manual for experts by experience?! Sounds amazing! Experts by experience or those working with experts by experience - come and hear more. eventbrite.co.uk/e/psychology-h…
#homelessness #peerresearch Centre for Homelessness Research and Practice Justlife Nick Maguire Psychology at Soton

Autistic and Homeless. 💬 A disproportionately high number of homeless individuals are autistic. Why might being autistic contribute to experiencing homelessness? Sign up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/psychology-h… #homelessness #autism Centre for Homelessness Research and Practice Psychology at Soton BSMS Nick Maguire

Trauma is not just a wound. It's a story we tell ourselves. We need guidance to get that story straight, or we risk becoming prisoners of our own self portraits.

Come the show at the Fringe: thestand.co.uk/fringe/2036/da…

Concerning lived experience...

I am one of those people often referred to as having ‘lived experience’ – a label given to those of us who are not professionally qualified to assert the things we do who are instead authenticated by the adversities we have suffered. If you spend…

Can people involved in drug and alcohol use services, professionals and academics have a wee go and RT of sharing this work around networks. Please 🙏

Thanks to support from the @LidlGB Community Fund and 3 Newcastle Ward Committees, we have been able to employ a sessional cook who will be delivering cookery courses for people experiencing homelessness or insecure housing in our newly fitted kitchen!

Our new analysis: local authority council tax rises hit those in need the hardest, increasing council taxes on the back of steep central govt funding reductions, highest in LA's with lower life expectancy & more health inequalities @MichaeMarmot @UCL bit.ly/LEGAP

In what moral universe can this be the right thing to do: the lower the life expectancy of a local area in 2010-12, the greater the cuts to government funding in the subsequent years. Was this a deliberate policy to increase health inequalities?

Addressing health inequalities in times of austerity: implementation of a place-based approach in multitiered local government

#Inequalities #RealistTheory #SystemChange

caroline lee

Read online: rb.gy/22xbzm

New paper klaxon. Transforming public services to better respond to diverse contexts. Huge thanks to all who participated in the research, from interviewees, research team, reviewers and editorial team. #inequalities #SystemChange

Homelessness jumps 16% in England, laying bare scale of housing crisis theguardian.com/society/2024/a… It will only get worse and worse until housing, social housing, welfare and public health policy is intelligently directed and properly resourced, it is time for a change.

New report: 'Always at the bottom of the pile': Homeless & Inclusion Health Barometer

The national crisis facing England's health and housing systems leads to worsening health for people in inclusion health groups

Read the report: bit.ly/4d9t1Da

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