Only 2.5% of private rentals in England affordable on housing benefit, study finds
Exclusive: Charities say freeze to housing benefit will push more people into rent arrears and homelessness
Rising rents meets real-terms reductions in Housing Benefit with only one outcome. Important research on the affordability crisis for private rents.
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Stop Airport Expansion! Help us tell the government we don't want expansion at any UK airport, including Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton
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May not solve all your problems but, if you email them (Dept of Finance), they can send you a copy of their EPC data. It isn't published openly, but it can be made available.
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Fully-funded PhD: the value of public transport services for social inclusion, based @ubdc.bsky.social - a great opportuity to start a career in quantitative social research.
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Senior Lecturer/Professor in Planning.
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We are excited to attend the #ADRUKConference2025 in Wales in September this year. Please remember to submit your abstracts before 28 February 2025. adrukconference2025.org
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Hellooo Bluesky! Finally getting started here having left 'the place that cannot be named' a while back. Now recreating my network. Interested housing and urban studies, esp. challenges of sustainability. Heat pumps and energy efficiency a particular focus. Let me know who I should be following!
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Demographer, stats geek & feminist against inequality. Researcher with SLS-DSU & @scadrdata.bsky.socialβ¬ at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.socialβ¬
Climate solutions blogger. Geography, environment, energy, nature, heat pumps and water expert from Scotland, UK. Author of 'Carbon Choices' on common-sense climate solutions.
www.carbonchoices.uk
Creative Climate Action Practitioner & Place-Based Doctoral Researcher @uofgussp.bsky.social | theatre maker and facilitator
People. Planet. Place. Place & Wellbeing Partnership Lead at Improvement Service & Public Health Scotland.
Professor in Science, Knowledge and Public Policy
University of Glasgow
Professor and Director of the Work and Equalities Institute, Alliance Manchester Business School, Manchester University.
Working in comms with Smart Data Research UK | @sdruk.bsky.social | All views my own though!
Senior Lecturer at @uofgussp.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social. Working on #migration #diversity #Brexit #Covid19 #city, rural areas, Central East Europe & Poland. Own views.
Clean heat and warm homes campaigner for climate thinktank E3G.
A running, cycling, gardening, boat dwelling Londoner
Professor of Social Policy, University of Glasgow
Welfare conditionality, gender, women, Universal Credit, social security, disability benefits, devolution, migrant essential workers, labour migration
She/her
Could you take the flight free challenge? Visit our website for information, inspiration and to make your #FlightFree2025 pledge: www.flightfree.co.uk
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Been installing heat pumps for over 20 years, data nurd, mad old git building my own batterys to power my home.
Home Assistant user.
Likes a good ale.
Have a great family that supports me.
Glasgow Greens Councillor for Victoria Park | group lead for climate + health | she/her
Scientist/Author/Speaker; Presidential Distinguished Prof/Director Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media, U. Penn; National Academy of Sciences; Royal Society; Tyler Prize
Writing about ecological, social and economic justice. Editor, The Ecologist: theecologist.org
Environmental psychologist: transport, energy, water, buildings. Motonormativity guy. Head of Psychology, Swansea University π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ. Charity trustee x2. My views
Guinness World Record for the fastest bicycle ride across Europe drianwalker.com
Ecological, social and and economic justice. Publishing since 1970.
Ecosocialist bluestocking. Immigrant & settler πͺπΊπ¨ππΊπΈπ¬π§. Social ecology & ecological economics at Uni Lausanne in π¨π. Bad at email. She/her
