Aidan Byrne, Homelessness Service Manager at successful 2021 Call for New Ideas applicant East Belfast Mission, reflects on his organisation’s journey with Commonweal’s Call for New Ideas. I have worked in the homeless sector in Belfast for over 15 years. For most of this time I have managed Hosford, the homeless service of East Belfast Mission , which provides temporary accommodation and support to people experiencing homelessness. Over the years we have developed the servic

The “invisible minorities” of the UK housing system, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) people have for too long...

Ben Phillips-Farmer, Head of Community Engagement at Rentstart, reflects on Freedom2Work's achievements after being awarded the...

Commonweal Housing and Elmbridge-based homelessness charity Rentstart have won the Homelessness Partnership of the Year at UK Housing Awards.

Today marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. It's one of the most pervasive social injustices we...

Commonweal Housing has partnered with seven front-line organisations as part of its 2021 Call for New Ideas, the charity’s partnership...

Local councils could hold the key to a better regulated, cost-controlled exempt accommodation sector, if offered greater powers according...

The exempt accommodation sector has been exploited by some investors, creating “corrupt structures” that allow providers to “maximise...

Regulation covering exempt accommodation is not fit for purpose according to the Regulator for Social Housing (RSH), with Deputy Chief...

The government is determined to “drive out the minority of landlords who provide poor-quality accommodation and insufficient support” in...

The housing crisis in Britain in-part emerged due to poor policy choices around housing access, with the exempt accommodation sector...

It seems that we are at that point in the Summer season again, where the headlines harbour news of supposed crisis after crisis at the...

As coronavirus restrictions lift, vulnerable migrants with NRPF are facing the prospect of returning to life without shelter.

Csenge (Cicy) Földvári-Nagy, recipient of the Jane Slowey Memorial Bursary 2020, blogs on the findings of her outstanding dissertation research at the University of Birmingham's School of Social Policy.

Commonweal Housing's annual review calls for urgent improvements to housing provision for those most harshly affected by the COVID19 pandemic.

A formidable champion of the charity sector and campaigner who rarely rested, Jane Slowey was at the heart of change in the housing and...

Ben Phillips-Farmer reflects on Rentstart's 20-year history of harnessing the PRS as a route out of homelessness, including five years in partnership with Commonweal.

Megan Fereday reflects on the UK's first ever LGBT+ retirement community, and why older LGBT+ people need access to safe and affirming housing.

Leading domestic abuse charity, Solace, Commonweal Housing and Southwark Council, are today advocating for strong and effective...

With youth unemployment at record levels, never has it been more important to provide a housing offer which enables young people to live, work, earn and learn.

Quaker Social Action has unlocked £10,000 in match-funded donations from Commonweal Housing by reaching its Big Give Challenge target in...

A new report by Hibiscus Initiatives, and supported by Commonweal, finds that the majority of potential female victims of trafficking...

A blog by Dominic Bradley, Chief Executive of Spring Housing Association. It is almost exactly a year since we published ‘ Exempt from...

Too many women are forced to choose between living with abuse or living on the streets. That’s because the majority of survivors of...