Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. If you’re looking for a chink of light ahead of the promised government strategy on homelessness, the number of homeless households living in bed …| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. If anyone needs any reminding, two new reports reveal the depth and breadth of the crisis in temporary accommodation in England. On Thursday the all-party Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) Committee published the results of its inquiry into the ‘utterly shameful’ situation in a report that spells out […]| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. No more sticking plaster politics was the promise from Labour at the general election seven months ago. The 126,000 homeless families and 164,000 …| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. After a relentless week of grim international news, it’s good to have something to celebrate on the domestic and housing front. Until the sp…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. Think of all the elements of the grim inheritance bequeathed to this government by the last one and perhaps the grimmest is the almost 160,000 chi…| Jules Birch
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Writer and editor, mostly about housing and social policy. Blogger at Inside Housing. Ageing footballer| Jules Birch