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Nicholas Pleace

@nicholaspleace.bsky.social
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Interdisciplinary researcher, homelessness/social justice, School for Business and Society, University of York; Independent research and consultancy pure.york.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/n…

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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
on.ft.com/4pCsOhj The housing crisis is pushing Gen Z into crypto and economic nihilism Fascinating piece in the @financialtimes.com on alienation linked to never being able to own a home. We talk about ontological insecurity in homelessness, but look at what broken housing markets are doing to us.
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg... Pleased to have a chapter by myself and Joanne Bretherton in this new @routledgebooks.bsky.social Handbook of Home edited by Elaine Stratford and Katie Walsh, who invited us to contribute following our work on the @routledgebooks.bsky.social Handbook on Homelessness
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The Routledge Handbook of Home
This global, critical, and interdisciplinary handbook rethinks home as a material, emotional, and geopolitical site. It examines housing, displacement, domesticity, climate, care and the intimate labo...
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Latest from me: on what Liverpool says about the housing crisis, and the uneasy state of politics www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A waiting list of thousands, and just five new homes for social rent: this city shows the depth of Britain’s housing crisis | John Harris
Liverpool was once praised for its tolerance, but housing shortages are driving fearful, unsettling behaviours – and people are blaming outsiders, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... this from @johnharris1969.bsky.social encapsulates where we are with homelessness and what is and has been for many years a full blown crisis in the housing system very clearly and comprehensively.
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A waiting list of thousands, and just five new homes for social rent: this city shows the depth of Britain’s housing crisis | John Harris
Liverpool was once praised for its tolerance, but housing shortages are driving fearful, unsettling behaviours – and people are blaming outsiders, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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.
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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.
Stage for presentations at the FEANTSA European Observatory on Homelessness research conference
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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.
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Crisis Housing First in London and Newcastle: Final Evaluation
An inability to access affordable and suitable housing causes homelessness as well as sustaining it.
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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...
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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.
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Housing First with Nicholas Pleace
YouTube video by Imogen Blood
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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
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Inside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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We can no longer sidestep race inequalities in the homelessness system
Our research on the experience of homeless Black families trying to access housing support shows the need tackle discrimination, writes Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick, director of I-SPHERE at Heriot-Watt University
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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.
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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).
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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.
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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.
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
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.
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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.
Research Digest Number 3: Women and Homelessness
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Stockholm Environment Institute @sei.org · 18/06/2025
🌬️ Discover why indoor air matters! Join SEI and partners on June 23 at 1:00 PM for a powerful #LCAW2025 webinar on indoor air quality and its implications for net zero and public health. Register 👉 buff.ly/EJyKwbN #ClimateWeek #CleanAirDay
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Dr Gary Fuller @drgaryfuller.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
We spend the majority of our lives indoors - at home, school, or work. The quality of air we breathe in these environments is often overlooked, but it plays a crucial role in our health and well-being. Hear from the INGENIOUS project scientists... www.londonclimateactionweek.org/event/pan-on...
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Events - London Climate Action Week
Discover climate summits, forums, workshops, and more during London Climate Action Week — a city-wide celebration of climate action and awareness.
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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.
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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
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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
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‘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
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Suzannah Young @suzannahyoung.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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-...
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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
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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.
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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.
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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...
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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
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Chartered Institute of Housing @cihhousing.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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)
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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.
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How Much Would It Cost to House Everyone in Homeless Shelters?
YouTube video by National Alliance to End Homelessness
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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..
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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
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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...
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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.
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Visiting Utrecht with the European Observatory on Homelessness where we are planning the international homelessness research conference in September www.feantsaresearch.org
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg... Please to see that the Routledge handbook is coming out as a (rather more affordable) paperback.
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The Routledge Handbook of Homelessness
The Routledge Handbook of Homelessness brings together many of the world’s leading scholars in the field to provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research and future trends in the sub...
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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…
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Senior Tories and big landlords discuss ways to thwart renters’ rights bill
Exclusive: Meeting hosted by shadow housing minister for estate agents and landlords prompted accusations of collusion
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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?
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Thousands of Britons to have welfare income cut by more than 60%
FT calculations point to dramatic impact of government reforms to benefits system
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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.
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London councils buy £140m of property to move homeless people out of city
Exclusive: More than a dozen authorities have bought more than 850 properties in English towns and cities since 2017
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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.
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Call for abstracts: 19th European Research Conference on Homelessness
The European Observatory on Homelessness carries out transnational research on homelessness and housing exclusion.
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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
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Transforming Lives: A Three-Year Evaluation of our Housing First Strategic Grants Programme - Henry Smith Charity
The University of York has released its evaluation of our Housing First Strategic Grant Programme summarising the three-year programme, sharing learnings, challenges and successes to examine the trans...
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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.
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Built Environment at York
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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.
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Good Business Charter: A Practical and Accessible ESG Solution for Family Firms — Family Business Research Foundation
This article by Jenny Herrera, CEO of the Good Business Charter, and academics from the University of York, discusses the relevance of the Good Business Charter (GBC) to family firms. The article draw...
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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.
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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.
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The INGENIOUS project: towards understanding air pollution in homes - Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/D4EM00634H
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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.
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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.
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Call for abstracts: 19th European Research Conference on Homelessness
The European Observatory on Homelessness carries out transnational research on homelessness and housing exclusion.
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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
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The European Observatory on Homelessness carries out transnational research on homelessness and housing exclusion.
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... More on this same story, the staggering, horrific inequality of homelessness and its inhumanity.
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Temporary housing linked to deaths of at least 74 children
Official data show that 58 of those children were babies under the age of one.
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/number-... Is this 2025 or 1825? Unbelievable.
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Number of child deaths in temporary accommodation rises to 80 in one year
New data has revealed that the number of children who died in temporary accommodation has risen to 80.
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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.
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Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market | George Monbiot
Private developers offer politicians a simple solution for bulldozing through this crisis – build more. But it won’t work, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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...
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‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI
Plans to make UK world leader in AI sector include opening access to NHS and other public data
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Nicholas Pleace @nicholaspleace.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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.
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UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts – study
Britons 39% worse off than Dutch equivalent due to housing costs 44% higher than western European average
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