Some great presentations on the second day of the FEANTSA European Research Conference organised by the European Observatory on Homelessness. Hearing about family homelessness, evictions and emergency accommodation in Spain, France and the Netherlands this morning.

We’re about to commence the 19th European homelessness research conference in Utrecht organised by the FEANTSA European Observatory on Homelessness looking forward to a great couple of days about the latest and greatest homelessness research.

www.crisis.org.uk/ending-homel... New report on @crisis-uk.bsky.social Housing First led by Imogen Blood and I’m also one of the co-authors.

www.feantsaresearch.org/public/user/... An interesting review of the Routledge Handbook of Homelessness by Joe Doherty in the @feantsa.bsky.social European Journal of Homelessness, makes some fair points around gaps (acknowledging we could not cover everything) see if we go to 2nd Edition...

youtu.be/57LR2b_6Ezo?... Me talking to my colleague Imogen Blood about Housing First and matters arising from it, on Youtube and wherever you get your podcasts.

Great to be at the launch of the new City of York Council homelessness strategy which has involved collaboration with myself and other colleagues working in homelessness research at @uoysbs.bsky.social

At the Tourism Our Voice conference organised by The Good Organisation. York has an enormous tourist industry and there’s huge potential to tackle issues like homelessness through ethical, social and sustainable tourism.

www.gov.uk/government/n... 180,000 new social homes by 2029 in England (most of the investment backloaded). Ok. Good. Social housing completions 1947-50 - 521,790 - notice the difference in ambition (source: Indicators of UK House Building: Permanent dwellings started and completed, Table 3b, ONS).

At the final meeting of the Ingenious project ingenious.york.ac.uk which is led by Prof Nic Carslaw, on indoor air quality, strong evidence of associations between poor indoor air quality and deprivation and evidence showing the extent of fuel poverty.

Pleased to be in Bremen for another meeting of the European Observatory on Homelessness working with @feantsa.bsky.social preparing a new book on European homelessness, the research conference in Utrecht (www.feantsaresearch.org) and European comparative research on migrant homelessness.

About to do my bit for Social and Political Sciences and Social Policy at the @york.ac.uk and @uoysbs.bsky.social open days, which are today and tomorrow

www.imogenblood.co.uk/_files/ugd/7... Great to have had the chance to work on this new, I hope very accessible, guidance on Housing First Fidelity with my long-standing colleagues Imogen Blood and @anitabirchall.bsky.social

www.feantsa.org/public/user/... Great to be working with the @epochpractice.bsky.social team @feantsa.bsky.social on this series of research digests designed to support good practice in the European Platform on Combatting Homelessness across all 27 EU Member States.

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on.ft.com/3HERLIf England’s social housing funds ‘less generous’ than £39bn settlement suggests Rather depressing, a money later rather than sooner approach, alongside it not being £39bn for social housing, which it really should be.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Important and innovative work from my former CHP colleague Becky Tunstall showing again how housing costs and insecurity are at the root of mass poverty, misery and precarity in the UK

These stats are a tragedy. We need to build more family sized social homes to avoid under fives having to live in temporary accommodation www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/how-...

endhomelessness.org/wp-content/u... This is staggering from the US @naehomelessness.bsky.social imagine almost every UK homeless system and service being switched off overnight, this is what may happen in the US

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/n... How unfortunate that cracks are appearing in an ultra thin apartment skyscraper on New York’s billionaire’s row, thankfully we can rest easy knowing the residents have a couple of dozen homes each that they can flee to.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... An appalling human cost and financial waste, and this has been happening for years and years, see this from ‘16 by my colleague Julie Rugg: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/95...

Ahead of the 2025 Spending Review we urge the government to commit to real action, and to invest in the future of supported housing before more vital services are lost. Read the letter coordinated by National Housing Federation ⬇️ www.housing.org.uk/globalassets... 🧵(2/3)

youtu.be/QxnyC8kQ9Vw?... Important stuff from Dennis Culhane and colleagues [email protected] This says shelters but makes the strategic case for Housing First in the US. Very important in a context where Housing First and integrated strategies are subject to evidence-free attacks.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... There is no science to solving homelessness, even Housing First depends on housing supply and most homeless people are mainly just very poor, so this is good to highlight, but England used to build a lot more than 90,000 social Homes a year, over 200,000 in 1954..

www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/social-... Housing exclusion and homelessness would be better if government a) actually build coherent, integrated policy b) spent real money on social housing supply and c) understood that policy worsening one aspect of inequality will worsen other aspects...

Visiting Utrecht with the European Observatory on Homelessness where we are planning the international homelessness research conference in September www.feantsaresearch.org

www.routledge.com/The-Routledg... Please to see that the Routledge handbook is coming out as a (rather more affordable) paperback.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... In these bizarre and uncertain times, we can still rely on the Conservatives: Landlord First not Housing First, oh I hope they don’t steal that as a slogan…

on.ft.com/4iByoO0 Thousands of Britons to have welfare income cut by more than 60% It is hard to see any clear rationale in any of this, putting up employer NI contributions has constricted the job market at the lower end, so what work are people supposed to look for?

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... The horrifying effects of decades of government policy which has done anything - anything - no matter how illogical or expensive, to avoid pursuing the one policy solution to this: building social housing.

www.feantsaresearch.org/en/conferenc... Still time to submit an abstract! This international research conference is the best place to hear about the latest and greatest in European and global homelessness research.

www.henrysmithcharity.org.uk/insights/hou... Pleased to see our new report and guidance on Housing First from Joanne Bretherton, @presentlyincorrect.bsky.social Cheyann Heap and myself on the Henry Smith Charity website, more homelessness research from the @uoysbs.bsky.social at @york.ac.uk

www.york.ac.uk/yesi/network... Delighted to be involved in a new York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) network called Built Environment at York - BE@York - working across all three faculties and many departments, including the School for Business and Society at the University of York.

www.fbrf.org.uk/articles/goo... A new article talking about the Good Business Charter work led by Jacqueline You, co-written with Jennifer Herrera from GBC which I was also involved with. Ethical business can also be very effective business, something that it is important to remember at the moment.

www.crisis.org.uk/media/fjsnxj... New research by Dr Michela Tinelli supported by @crisis-uk.bsky.social covered in today’s @financialtimes.com with quotes from @francescaalbanese.bsky.social £732m spent on temporary accommodation in England a 78% rise, unsustainable on every level.

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... New paper on the Ingenious project led by Prof Nic Carslaw an interdisciplinary study looking at indoor air quality in the UK.

eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/223514/1/Hen... And new guidance drawing on the new research. This is not how to do Housing First, there are excellent sources from @homelesslink.bsky.social and the Housing First Europe Hub out there, but it does get into the practicalities of doing Housing First on a budget

eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/223513/1/Hen... New research on Housing First from Joanne Bretherton, Kit Colliver @presentlyincorrect.bsky.social Cheyann Heap and myself. Looking at setting up and developing seven Housing First services in England and Wales, including Housing First for Women services.

www.feantsaresearch.org/en/conferenc... The best opportunity to hear about the latest and greatest in European and international homelessness research. Submit an abstract and tell an expert audience about your research.

www.feantsaresearch.org At the first European Observatory on Homelessness meeting of this year in Seville. We're focusing on a new comparative book on European homelessness and looking at research on migration and homelessness in Europe @feantsa.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... More on this same story, the staggering, horrific inequality of homelessness and its inhumanity.

www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/number-... Is this 2025 or 1825? Unbelievable.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Interesting column, one can argue with some of it (particularly around the idea of there ‘actually’ being ‘enough’ housing) but the basic point that free housing markets exist only to maximise profit and always create deep inequality is hard to dispute.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Oh my, its the White Heat of Technology, a timeless classic. Expect AI driven solutions to homelessness, predictive analytics first, then maybe nasty AI implemented 'behavioural change' models using Neoreactionary 'logic', but not any AI built social housing...

www.theguardian.com/business/202... An insanely overheated housing market is (obviously) driving up poverty and inequality in the UK. Major increases in social housing supply must form the core of an effective policy response. Housing costs are making people angry and we know where that can end up.

www.theguardian.com/society/2024... A scandal, but caused by selling and not replacing council housing and effectively stopping building social and affordable homes, these extremes arise because there is almost nowhere affordable to house people within London’s insanely overheated housing markets.

Brilliant to see research by my colleague of 30+ years Dr Julie Rugg on licensing private rented sector homes for safer renting in this list, and in first place too @uoysbs.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/society/2024... We have to break with the Thatcherite fiction that social housing is inefficient, rewards laziness and causes social harm, as Becky Tunstall (read The Fall and Rise of Council Housing) argues, social housing reduces housing inequalities in a way nothing else does.