Head in the clouds
Bob Green is the Chief Executive of Stonewall Housing I have had a dream ever since I started at Stonewall Housing 10 years ago: to start housing for older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people within the United Kingdom. LGBT communities face particular challenges that impact on their housing needs as they…
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Changes in our team
On 11th August Commonweal said goodbye to our Communications Coordinator Ambreen Ahmad, who has moved on to take up a research role. Commonweal would like to thank Ambreen for the sizable contribution she made to our work over the last year and a half and we wish her the very best for the future. Jacob…
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Annual Impact Review
Challenging the injustices of the asylum system, developing innovative shared housing models, offering stable homes for women exiting street-based prostitution – just a taster of the things we have been involved in over the last year. Download our 2014 -15 Annual Impact Review to find out more. You can read about Commonweal Housing’s impact on: the people…
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To vote or not to vote, that, is the question…
Which party will I vote for in this year’s general election? I have been asked this question numerous times in the last few months. As a woman I’m also often reminded by other women that people died for our right to vote. So I’m sure you can imagine people’s reaction in the past when I’ve…
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Housing Benefit – who really benefits?
This week has seen yet another TV exposé on rogue landlords, this time by BBC Panorama “The Great Housing Benefit Scandal” aired on 20 April. Whilst, as in all good exposé investigative journalism, extremes have been shown, there can be no question however that the landlords shown in this film are providing very poor quality…
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Re-uniting mothers and children
Local Re-Unite successes Gloucestershire and Derby sit at two ends of the Re-Unite spectrum. Louise’s* life has been transformed – from a difficult childhood in Gloucestershire and a subsequent custodial sentence, she has now been re-united with her young son and is moving on in her life. A five bed house in Derby recently became…
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