May 26, 2025Welsh Government launches landmark homelessness Bill The Welsh government has laid a new, highly progressive Homelessness and Social Housing Allocation Bill before the Senedd on 19th May 2025
November 11, 2024Reducing the use of temporary accommodationAn unprecedented 140,000 households are occupying temporary accommodation across Britain. What can be done to reduce use of temporary accommodation?
April 27, 2022Lived Experience as an asset: Learning from fulfilling livesRunning from 2014 to 2022, the Fulfilling Lives projects are coming to an end this summer. Made possible by the National Lottery Community Fund, the programme sought ways to help people experiencing combinations of homelessness, mental ill-health, addiction, and offending behaviour more effectively.
March 24, 2021Making hidden homelessness visibleWith more than half a million people ‘sofa surfing’, it’s important that the issue of hidden homelessness is visible in strategies and services.
February 24, 2021Good advice prevents homelessness Free, accessible, quality housing advice is key to ending homelessness.
January 26, 2021National action needed to increase local prevention successes A national homelessness strategy, sharing good practice and long-term funding will help local authorities prevent more homelessness.
December 16, 2020Long-term funding will help even-up the focus of councils homelessness prevention activity. The Local Government Association commissioned the Institute for Social Policy, Housing, Equalities Research (I-SPHERE) to carry out research into what central government can do to help councils to effectively prevent homelessness.
December 15, 2020Achieving first class success with the Housing First approach. To successfully pilot the Housing First approach attention must be paid to commissioning and performance monitoring, adherence to best practice, operational deliverability, securing a supply of adequate accommodation and ensuring lived experience informs policy and practice.
July 29, 2020How can councils in England reduce their use of temporary accommodation? Despite the introduction of the Homelessness Reduction Act, Flexible Homelessness Support Grant and other measures designed to shift the emphasis of homelessness activity in England towards prevention and relief and away from the widespread use of temporary accommodation (TA), temporary accommodation numbers have continued to rise. Why do we still have some many people living in local authority temporary accommodation in England?
June 2, 2020An exciting New CollaborationAdviceAid are today announcing an exciting new partnership with leading housing and homelessness consultants Neil Morland & Co.