On Richmond Online: Richmond Plans Ten-Year Leases as Homeless Housing Bill Nears £10m
Richmond’s proposed long leases are a pragmatic response to a housing system that is shifting the cost of family homelessness onto local government.
On INQUEST: INQUEST’s campaign for real accountability is progressing, but change cannot come soon enough
Britain needs independent oversight that turns inquiry recommendations into accountable action and makes delay, rejection and incomplete implementation visible.
Record homelessness counts in the United States and record numbers in temporary accommodation in England show that housing failure now reaches families with children and people in work.
On marylandmatters.org: The cost of healthcare is hitting America where it hurts: The wallet - Maryland Matters
The experiences of Sheila Robinson, Bill McAdams and Janet Marx show that medical debt is a structural cost of American life, reaching insured households as well as the uninsured.
On blog.bham.ac.uk: ADULT SOCIAL CARE PROVISION, COVID-19 AND THE STATUTORY “EASEMENTS”: SOME REFLECTIONS ON MODULE 6 OF THE COVID-19 INQUIRY REPORT – Birmingham Law School Research and Scholarship Blog
The Covid Inquiry’s care findings should trigger a public accounting of action, because documenting institutional failure is not the same as preventing its return.
On Channel 4 News: Survivors speak out on failures following Independent Inquiry in to Child Sexual Abuse
The child-sexual-abuse inquiry shows that Britain can document institutional failure in detail while implementing its remedies too slowly to stop documented failures recurring.
Britain’s public inquiries document institutional failure in exhaustive detail, but their recommendations are implemented slowly and partially, leaving the same failures free to recur.
On Caerphilly Observer: Shopper food donations fall as working people seek help
The collapse in food donations alongside rising demand from workers shows charitable food aid becoming part of ordinary British household survival rather than a residual emergency service.
Charitable food aid has become part of how a growing share of British households get by, showing that incomes and benefits no longer cover the basics.
The Center documents poverty, hardship, and institutional failure in the world’s wealthiest countries — and connects stories usually reported in isolation into sustained, evidence-led argument. Every piece states its position and shows its sources.
The homelessness system’s failure is now measured in households held in temporary accommodation, so better handoffs cannot replace secure and affordable homes.
A large share of employed Americans cannot absorb a modest emergency expense, showing that having a job no longer guarantees basic financial security.
The medical-debt debate should test whether patients are protected from unaffordable bills and coercive collection, rather than treating debt as an individual failure.
Andy Burnham’s promise to move rough sleepers indoors will remain unverifiable and incomplete unless England records veterans consistently and strengthens mainstream homelessness provision.
Income, deprivation, and material hardship in the world's wealthiest countries.
Access to care, medical debt, and the cost of staying well.
Unemployment, insecure work, and pay that no longer covers the basics.
Unequal schooling, student debt, and the narrowing paths to opportunity.
Rents, homelessness, energy bills, and the prices households cannot avoid.
When public institutions fail the people they exist to serve.