On Friday 3 September, we celebrated the fifth Starts at Home day. Across the country, hundreds of housing associations staff and residents organised visits demonstrating the value of supported housing and took to social media to highlight its vital importance to thousands of people. Blog by Ella Cheney, Campaigns Manager at the National Housing Federation. …
Supported housing has never been more important so find out more about Starts at Home and how to get involved this year in this blog from Ella Cheney, Campaigns Manager at the National Housing Federation. What is Starts at Home? Back in 2015, the government announced it was changing the funding model of supported housing. …
On Friday 31 August we celebrated our third Starts at Home Day. Hundreds of housing association staff and tenants joined the campaign to showcase the value of supported housing, and celebrate the news that we have secure future funding for this services. With the Government in recess, the summer is usually a quiet period devoid …
Today is Starts at Home Day, a day when housing associations up and down the country celebrate supported housing and the positive impact it makes on thousands of lives. This day of action is central to the Starts at Home campaign, a campaign that has a simple but important aim – to ensure that people …
With Starts at Home Day just two weeks away (31 August), Jeremy Gray, CEO of Evolve Housing + Support, shares his experience of how influencing through campaigns like Starts at Home has secured the future funding of supported housing. At Evolve Housing + Support we provide vital supported housing for vulnerable people – almost 700 …
This morning, the Government announced that all supported housing funding will be covered by the welfare system, ending their plan to fund short-term accommodation through council grants. This fantastic news is what we’ve been working to achieve. In this clip, Catherine Ryder, Head of Policy at the National Housing Federation talks about what the announcement …
Starts at Home Day 2018 will take place on Friday 31 August 2018 and it is critical we continue to keep supported housing high on the political agenda. You’ll recall that last year, the sector was facing the prospect of the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) cap being applied to supported housing, which would have made it more …
