Project News

The shameful state of Britain’s housing for refugees

By Rebecca Dillon | February 2, 2017

“The way a government treats refugees is very instructive; it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.”

Our new Strategic Plan is now available

By Rebecca Dillon | January 31, 2017

We’re delighted to announce that our new Strategic Plan is now available for download. Commonweal Housing has now been delivering innovative housing solutions to social injustice for over a decade, and our new strategic plan lays out how we’re going to continue driving change through our portfolio of targeted social housing projects. The document is both a…

Move On Up: Helping Young Adult Carers build their future

By Rebecca Dillon | January 26, 2017

On Young Carer’s Awareness Day we reflect on our Move On Up project.

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…

Hope for the future – Chrysalis

By Rebecca Dillon | March 30, 2015

Six years on from the launch of Chrysalis, we are now asking whether a lack of support for women exiting prostitution still exists. To help answer this question – Commonweal will commission a 2015 Position Statement outlining the current policies, practices and experiences of women seeking to exit prostitution. Along with our partners St Mungo’s Broadway, we…

A helping hand for the formerly homeless – with Thames Reach and Peer Landlord

By Rebecca Dillon | March 26, 2014

Bill Tidnam from Thames Reach blogs about the Peer Landlord project.

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