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Annual Review 2015/16

By Rebecca Dillon / June 10, 2016

Every year we publish a review of our projects, finances and activities in the previous year. In 2016 we celebrate a special milestone, our 10th anniversary. To mark the occasion we produced a special annual review this year, looking back not only at 2015/16 but at the previous 10 years. In this year’s review we…

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New report launched on exiting prostitution

By Rebecca Dillon / March 23, 2016

Danger that specialist support for women to leave prostitution behind being “undermined” Commonweal Housing releases a new report today investigating developments in policy and practice affecting services that support women to leave prostitution behind them. The report was carried out by academics and commissioned by Commonweal, who provide third stage accommodation to St Mungo’s staged model…

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Time to take Pride in housing for older people

By Rebecca Dillon / February 5, 2016

This is a version of an article featured in Inside Housing  on 29th January 2016.    As we approach the film awards season, I’m reminded of a film that really touched me in the last year. BAFTA award winning Pride tells the true story of a group of LGBT activists who allied themselves with striking miners…

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Lets talk about debt

By Rebecca Dillon / January 25, 2016

I’ve written before about my fascination with George Osborne, and so in my first blog of 2016 I wanted to return to that subject. Last year George was very keen on talking about building, you could barely move for pictures of the Chancellor dressed in a high vis and a hard hat, his conference speech…

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The Private Rented Sector a necessary evil or good and vital partners?

By Rebecca Dillon / January 4, 2016

I have long been an advocate of making use of and working with the private rented sector to meet housing need.  Partly through pragmatism (realising there was simply not enough publicly funded social housing) and partly through a strong belief in multiple options and choice. The private rented sector in various guises has been a…

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Impact investment: it cannot be just about the wow …… look at the fairness!

By Rebecca Dillon / December 4, 2015

Housing solutions to social injustice – a phrase I have used countless times since first joining Commonweal back in 2010.  Our strap line continues to say it all for me – housing as part of the solution to bigger, sometimes more intractable problems in people’s lives that mean they are systemically and repeatedly getting the…

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