Locked Out Commonweal Housing

Transitions, such as those between services, localities and life stages, can cause significant disruption in some people’s lives, and can increase their risk of housing insecurity and homelessness. This episode is the second of two parts focussing on the housing challenges that arise for people experiencing periods of transition. This week, we’re looking particularly at the social injustices faced by people making the transition out of homelessness. From long term challenges like a...

Transitions, such as those between services, localities and life stages, can cause significant disruption in some people’s lives, and can increase their risk of housing insecurity and homelessness. This episode is the first of two parts focussing on the housing challenges that arise for people experiencing periods of transition. In part one, we’re talking about housing for young people leaving care. Too many care experienced people continue to find their most basic needs unmet by ...

Domestic or sexual violence and housing insecurity too often go hand-in-hand. For survivors of domestic abuse, including physical, emotional and economic abuse, the processes of leaving an abusive home are far more complex than they may seem. Women who have experienced extensive abuse including in childhood often go on to experience complex and overlapping disadvantages like addiction, poor mental health and homelessness. In turn, life on the streets or in insecure housing can expose women to...

Black and minoritized women face multiple barriers to safe and secure housing, including being at higher risk of experiencing domestic violence. Specialist organisations can provide trauma-informed housing support to victims of racial and gender-based violence – but with shrinking resources and skyrocketing demand, it’s become harder than ever to house the women who need it most.In this episode of Locked Out, we’ll be asking Christina Ioannou and Gabriela Quevedo of Latin American Women's Aid...

For people in contact with the criminal justice system, access to safe housing is vital to moving onto independent and stable lives. Yet too many people are trapped in a devastating cycle of homelessness and offending. In episode two of Locked Out, we ask why it is so hard for people in contact with the criminal justice system to access housing - and what needs to change?Building on the themes explored in their contributions to the Locked Out anthology, Nicola Drinkwater (Clinks) and Jes...