no but it was good

saw him in August. Still good

You already have to show ID to rent or get a job? And have done for years?

That's very interesting. Do you have a hunch why that happened?

I'm now going to spend my train journey home thinking of 1 sentence plots

up there with "DeVito & Schwarzenegger are twins"

this is a lovely example of his point that jokes have a technical and emotional aspect. The pun is funnier if it explores an emotional or even slightly taboo topic. It can be funny without that but it's funnier when it's spot on.

One of my favourites

Older adult wearing a beanie and blue jacket, standing outdoors with a thoughtful expression. Text overlay reads, 'I don't see myself retiring.' Our new research exposes the harsh reality of Britain's housing crisis for older people.

An older individual looks contemplatively out a window with text stating that nearly 50% of older people on lower incomes say they would have nowhere to go if they lost their home.

An individual works with tools in a workshop, with text stating 'Nearly 1 in 5 said they wanted to retire but couldn't because of their housing costs.'

An older woman washing her hands in a kitchen, with text overlay stating, 'Nearly 1 in 10 older renters fear they will be at risk of homelessness by the end of the year.'

🚩FACT: 47% of older people on low incomes would have nowhere to go if they lost their home.

New research by Crisis shows the housing crisis is driving older people on lower incomes towards homelessness - many forced to delay retirement or make tough choices to keep their homes. 1/2

Councils will spend just 5.6% of their social care budgets on prevention this year, compared to 8.4% in 2019-20

great piece. those were the days etc...

Statistics for March 25 show that across Kent and Medway, 194 people were seen sleeping rough, an increase of 11% on the same time the previous year

Only 5 house builders* built more than 5,000 homes in 2024.

Between them those 5 built c. 64,000 homes, around a third of the total additional homes.

A further 13 developers built between 1,000 and 5,000 homes (totalling c. 32,000).

*Combining Barratt and Redrow.

Homelessness surges in Brussels Hundreds of people are sleeping in public spaces including metro stations, new report shows.

New report: #Homelessness surges in the heart of the Europe

9,777 people were recorded as homeless in #Brussels on a single night, an increase of 25% since the previous count

@feantsa.bsky.social

www.politico.eu/article/home...

Good to see some positive movements in quarterly homelessness stats - assessments down and positive prevention/relief compared to previous quarter, but numbers in temporary accommodation still climbing and overall homelessness picture worse than year ago. www.gov.uk/government/s...

Of course, and I was almost optimsitic the last time LHA rates for linked to market rates but now we're back to freezing them again

also currently hard to see a solution that does involve the PRS

atg

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Another great job opportunity here for a data geek. Exciting and important work!

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Graph showing median re-let time for new lettings in existing social stock, 2007/08 to 2023/24 from Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Social housing lettings in England, 2023/24: COntinuous REcording (CORE) data. Re-let was pretty consistent until covid (21 days), then shot up to 28 days and is only slowly starting to climb down from 30 in 2022/23 to 29 in 2023/24. Re-let time for local authorities is particularly high (43 days for general needs at social rent in 2023/24), though not sure how much non-response by local authorities to CORE affects this.

Doing some analysis of CORE data (which does have some challenges in terms of quality and response), and interested to hear thoughts on the median re-let time for homes.

What is driving re-let times in your organisations? What are you doing to manage this? Anything successful that you're proud of?

Local Housing Allowance was set last year using data on rents collected from September 2022-September 2023. Since then rents have gone up around 17%, leaving a huge gap to be paid out of people's remaining benefits or earnings. www.ons.gov.uk/economy/infl...

We have a vacancy at Resolution Foundation for someone to lead our housing policy work. £55 - £68k, office based in Westminster.

Closing date: 08:59am on 17 April 2025 (1/2)

Data published today for England shows:

▶️ record high rates of overcrowding in social housing

▶️ record high underoccupancy in owner occupied housing

New MHCLG stats show child #Homelessness & #RoughSleeping continue to soar:

164k kids in temp accommodation (up 16%)
4,667 people rough sleeping (up 20%)

This is no way to live or for a child to grow up - a result of years of cuts & policy failure

We need a #PlanForHousing

Statutory homelessness in England: July to September 2024

One bit of good news in general gloom about homelessness: the number of families with children living in bed and breakfasts beyond the six-week legal limit fell 8% in latest quarter (the first 'Labour' one). Still 3,470 of them though, 21 times higher than in 2010

www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Eg I would say that my liberal values are completely interwoven with how I think about being Jewish, British and a dad and how I think the government should behave.

come to think about it, I'm not sure there ideas on faith or the flag show that much evidence of serious consideration...

Good point! I get why Blue Labour say "family" is important but they don't demonstrate they've done a lot of thinking about the idea of family