The Silence Around Small Housing Charities The housing debate is everywhere. Newspapers, politicians, think tanks, large housing associations. Yet one voice is consistently missing: small housing charities. Even basic systems erase us. When you sign up for Housing Today, you cannot even select “small housing charity” as an organisation type. You are forced to pretend...Continue Reading

If the Government Wants to Lead, It Must Start with Housing   I’m writing this as the CEO of a specialist housing charity that provides homes for people with learning disabilities and autism. We see the reality of the UK housing crisis every day — the housing shortage, the anxiety, the ineligibility, the despair. Now...Continue Reading

What is Britain’s Housing Crisis? There is currently a shortage of affordable housing in Britain. This has led to a boom in rents and house prices, while wages have stagnated. The housing crisis is devastating for young people and those on low to middle incomes who struggle to afford to rent or buy a home....Continue Reading

The housing crisis | Social justice: The Diggers vision lingers on Zetetick Housing is working in the midst of a housing crisis that has grown over the last 11 years. For 15 years we have attempted to house the disenfranchised, those with learning disabilities and autism and all the associated disabilities and mental health challenges....Continue Reading

Change is needed and housing is in crisis Yes, change is needed if we are to get housing for people with learning disabilities. In fact, generally, social housing needs to step up. Housing for people with learning disabilities How can we grasp the ideas of another culture or another person, when the very way we...Continue Reading