Nicholas Pleace

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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.

Stage for presentations at the FEANTSA European Observatory on Homelessness research conference

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.

Crisis Housing First in London and Newcastle: Final Evaluation An inability to access affordable and suitable housing causes homelessness as well as sustaining it.

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.

By the way its now in paperback for around £40, rather less than the £200 for the hardback and the ebook is cheaper

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...

YouTube video by Imogen Blood Housing First with Nicholas Pleace

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.

Thanks very much for this Anna.

Correction: thanks to @annaclarke.bsky.social the 180,000 is a *ten* year target.

Hundreds of thousands to get secure roof over their heads Government sets out ambitions for a social rent revolution through the new £39 billion Social and Affordable Homes Programme.

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

Research Digest Number 3: Women and Homelessness

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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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England’s social housing funds ‘less generous’ than £39bn settlement suggests Analysis indicates spending of about £3bn a year until 2029, similar to AHP’s money for current financial year

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.

‘Stress crisis’ in UK as 5m struggle with financial, health and housing insecurity Exclusive: Levels of ‘multi-stress’ at highest since 2008 crash, study says, with people feeling profoundly powerless

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

How many toddlers and babies are living in temporary accommodation in the UK? Inside Housing’s latest quarterly update to its live data dashboard reveals the numbers of households with children aged under five living in temporary accommodation and B&Bs

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

Luxury Condo Owners Accuse Builders of Hiding Dangerous Defects In a lawsuit, the condo board at 432 Park Avenue says the city and potential residents were not told about the severity of early cracks in the supertall building’s exterior.

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.

Private landlords and hotels ‘cashing in’ on England’s hidden homelessness crisis Exclusive: Half of local authorities charged double by private providers for temporary housing, investigation finds

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...

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YouTube video by National Alliance to End Homelessness How Much Would It Cost to House Everyone in Homeless Shelters?

youtu.be/QxnyC8kQ9Vw?... Important stuff from Dennis Culhane and colleagues and@naehomelessness.bsky.social 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.

Hundred-year wait for family-size social housing in parts of England, study finds Charities condemn ‘national scandal’ and call for pledge to build 90,000 social homes a year to meet demand

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..

Social rent arrears could rise by £240m due to welfare cuts If just 5% of the UK government’s planned welfare cuts result in unpaid rent, arrears for social landlords could rise by as much as £240m, Housemark has warned.

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