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St Mungos Homeless Couples and Relationships Toolkit

St Mungo’s Homeless Couples and Relationships Toolkit is a vital resource for every organisation working with homeless women

By Matt Wale / April 2, 2020

Matt Wale, Project Development Manager at Commonweal, reflects on St Mungo’s new guidance for homelessness organisations working with couples.

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Housing should be the least of a survivor’s worries. For too many it is the biggest.

By Connie Muttock / March 9, 2020

For International Women’s Day, Connie reflects on how a lack of housing is impacting the fight against gender-based violence

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Closing the inequalities gap: World Day of Social Justice 2020

By Megan Fereday / February 20, 2020

Megan reflects on the theme of World Social Justice Day 2020, and talks to our partners about how our work helps combat social injustice.

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We must collaborate to promote innovative modular housing for vulnerable people

By Megan Fereday / February 13, 2020

George Fisher shares the findings of his report for Commonweal into modular design, and its role in the future of housing for vulnerable groups.

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How housing policy is making our job harder

By Ashley Horsey / February 7, 2020

‘Doing the right thing’ has been a constant aim throughout our 14 years of work to combat social injustices through housing. The landscape of housing policy, however, hasn’t been quite as constant.

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Host housing is the only option for many – and councils can help ensure it works well

By Amy Doyle / February 5, 2020

More and more groups of vulnerable people are relying on schemes that allow them to stay in a spare room of a member of the public. Amy Doyle explains the role local authorities should – and shouldn’t – play

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