Ursula Aitchison, a CharityWorks graduate and policy strategy and research specialist at Chelmer Housing Partnership, reports on her inquiry into housing association responses to racist…
Janani Paramsothy, of Newbridge Advisors, explores how the housing sector should respond to the issues raised by the temporary accommodation of asylum seekers in hotels. (This…
This is a shortened version of a blog by Helen Charman, reproduced with permission from the London Review of Books. The new home secretary, Shabana…
This newsletter comes at the end of a conference season for the UK’s political parties, who spent much of it claiming to be tougher on…
This short guide from the CIH Housing Rights website is written for anyone working with asylum seekers in hotels and other asylum accommodation. The guide…
Here is the housing rights miscellany of news items and new guides and publications. New government legislation reaches report stage The second reading of the…
Problems continue as eVisas are rolled out and there is good and bad news on other issues to do with use of new technology. Updated…
The costs of asylum accommodation stay high while the government promises cost savings and less use of hotels. At the same time, it plans to…
As well as the latest news on the 56-day move-on period for refugees with successful claims, there is new funding to help local authorities to…
Also, during Refugee Week, CIH published three articles on issues relating to migrants’ rights. What happens to benefit entitlement following family reunion? CIH’s Sam Lister,…
Are the government’s immigration plans, announced in May, “untethered from reality” (Jonathan Portes, in The Guardian)? Or is it that “Keir Starmer loves a crackdown”…
So far this year there have been several indications that government immigration policy – especially in relation to “small boat” arrivals, is toughening up. Among…