Talking heads: The Windrush scandal and social housing
The Windrush scandal shamed the British government, particularly the Home Office, and damaged the lives of thousands. “The hostilities experienced by Caribbean people and those from other Commonwealth nations began much earlier than 2018, when the scandal was first publicly uncovered within the mainstream media,” Roland Houslin, the co-founder of Justice for Windrush Generations, told […]
Navigating the temporary accommodation crisis
Finding decent temporary accommodation for homeless households has become one of the biggest challenges facing councils and housing associations. In an exclusive for HQM, Keith Cooper explores how social landlords are responding to what’s become a national problem. The official figures are all headed in the wrong direction. The number of households in temporary […]
Our work is a reflection of the housing crisis
Richard Blakeway, the Housing Ombudsman, is a busy man. But HQN managed to pin him down for an hour, on Zoom, naturally. Max Salsbury reports. A man on a mission, Richard Blakeway seems to be everywhere at the moment. Is there perhaps more than one of him, cloned for the vast task of getting […]