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USA newsHousing and Poverty News
3 weeks ago
Boris Johnson's insistence to BBC London's Vanessa Feltz in October 2010 that the government's housing benefit reforms would not lead to "Kosovo-style social cleansing" was taken by some at the time as a criticism of the government's plans. But as Boris says, he support the changes in principle. He [...]
3 weeks ago
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• Boris Johnson vows to block 'Kosovo-style cleansing' of the poor
• Newham housing situation i[...]
• Boris Johnson vows to block 'Kosovo-style cleansing' of the poor
• Newham housing situation i[...]
3 weeks ago
Malaria kills scores of people every year, despite the efforts of the international development community. But with the UK facing spending cuts, should the government continue to fund such work?Malaria is one of the major causes of death and disease in the world. The life of a child is lost to malar[...]
3 weeks ago
Do the reforms create more opportunities, or more challenges, for social enterprises working in healthcare?More than 40 social enterprises have spun out from the NHS under the right to request legislation. With projected turnovers from £400,000 to close to £100m and from four members of staff to m[...]
3 weeks ago
The voluntary sector now takes on an unfair burden of responsibility for housing and health as councils lose focusHealth and wellbeing boards provide a real opportunity to help the homeless, particularly those with mental health problems.In every local authority there are people going through the re[...]
3 weeks ago
The spirit of the haves towards the have-nots is reliably ungenerous but otherwise incohesive, mixing resignation at the general level with agitation at the localThe poor are always with us – just so long as they're not with us right here. The spirit of the haves towards the have-nots is reliably [...]
3 weeks ago
Newham council among group which says they can no longer afford to house resident due to rising rents in the capitalA number of London councils are planning to move housing benefit claimants outside the capital as cuts shrink the number of properties affordable to people on welfare, prompting fears [...]
3 weeks ago
The only reason Johnson is still ahead in London's mayoral campaign is because it has turned into a version of The X FactorDavid Cameron's government is in the thick of an "omnishambles". Its poll ratings are in headlong retreat, its backbenchers in open and contemptuous rebellion. The prime mi[...]
3 weeks ago
Plans to move residents outside of London are the result of cuts to councils' budgets and the ending of rent controls in the 1980sNewham council's problem is painfully apparent: it is an inner-London council which has too many poor people in need of housing and too few low-cost properties available [...]
3 weeks ago
The residents of Owsley County, deep in Appalachian Kentucky, struggle with a lot of things: lack of jobs, drug addiction, poor health. Some 41.5% of its 5,000 people live below poverty level – one of the highest rates in the nation. But once a year, deep familial and community bonds help create a[...]
3 weeks ago
It's ludicrous to make Newham council shift people on benefits to areas where there is no workIs this the beginning of an exodus of all but the highest paid from London? Is its status as a plutocratic city state, detached from the rest of the country, about to become permanent? If so, you wouldn't e[...]
3 weeks ago
'The social cost is immeasurable, lives are being wrecked,' says Marylebone landlordOfficials at the central London county court have started granting eviction orders to a number of landlords in housing benefits cases, allowing them to begin eviction proceedings against tenants who are no longer abl[...]
3 weeks ago
Candidates announce support for Shelter campaign as Boris Johnson promises to 'bang heads together' to prompt pension fund investmentFive major London mayoral candidates have declared support for Shelter's Homes for London campaign and mayor Boris Johson has pledged to "bang heads together" to force[...]
3 weeks ago
Proposal emerges as Tory minister condemns Labour Newham council for plans to move housing benefit claimants to StokeThree Conservative London councils are considering moving at least 150 homeless families claiming housing benefit claimants 130 miles away to Derby and Nottingham, it has emerged. The[...]
3 weeks ago
The London borough's plea for Stoke on Trent to take tenants is indicative of a risky cocktail of pressures in the housing marketThe news that Newham council has written to a housing association in Stoke on Trent asking it to house 500 London families exposes the terrifying reality of our housing cr[...]
3 weeks ago
Campaigners fear lack of trust may discourage men from accessing crucial health advice and testingGay and bisexual men are neglected and sometimes discriminated against by a health service that tends to focus solely on their sexual health, despite the fact they are more likely to self-harm, attempt [...]
3 weeks ago
Clearances could contribute to coastal erosion and prove a missed opportunity to prevent climate changeStanding at the entrance to Lang Co town hall, 69-year-old Mai Truc Lam gestured to the two-story building, the sun-drenched parking lot and two-lane road in front, and described the small coastal [...]
3 weeks ago
The Ukrainian capital has been billed as the top destination for beautiful women. But its sex industry is a less attractive affairGreat news! Kiev, the city of my birth, has been ranked by Traveler's Digest as number one – as far as the presence of "beautiful women" is concerned, that is. Am I gla[...]
3 weeks ago
Newham asks Stoke housing association to accommodate 500 families it can't afford to place in private rental sectorA London council's plan to move housing benefit claimants to Stoke-on-Trent will increase pressure on already vulnerable neighbourhoods and could prompt an increase in "divisive rightwi[...]
3 weeks ago
Labour MPs say mayor using dust particle suppressants around air quality monitors to bring down their readingsA fresh political row has blown up over London's air pollution, with the capital's 34 Labour MPs complaining that mayor Boris Johnson has been trying to hide the pollution problem by gluing [...]
3 weeks ago
Bullying and bad management are no rarity in schools and many teachers would rather change jobs than address the issues head on, so why is there no standard method of dealing with the problem?
It was 3.45 on a Friday afternoon. The tears came almost as soon as the bell sounded and quickly becam[...]
It was 3.45 on a Friday afternoon. The tears came almost as soon as the bell sounded and quickly becam[...]
3 weeks ago
The letter in which Newham council asks the Brighter Futures Housing Association in Stoke if it will lease accommodation to more than 500 of its London-based families
3 weeks ago
It beggars belief that fracking is recommended to be extended and earthquakes the only risk taken into account (Gas fracking gets the green light, 17 April). Other risks are not just theoretical; appalling consequences have already happened on a wide scale in the US. Fracking has been carried [...]
3 weeks ago
East Midlands town, which lost 115 more jobs when Aquascutum closed its factory, is trying to fight back in a tough climate"Sometimes it does feel that a lot of bad news comes this way," says Barry Taylor, glancing at his three stalls in Corby indoor market, stacked high with model cars and lorries [...]
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