Round Two Night Shelter Transformation Fund Organisations Announced
Posted 11.10.23
Homeless Link: Further reading
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has awarded funding to 25 homelessness services in Round Two of the Night Shelter Transformation Fund (NSTF).
Supported by Homeless Link and Housing Justice, the NSTF provides grants to faith and community groups to transform night shelters across England.
The fund aims to improve both off-the-street accommodation as well as support services offered by non-commissioned night shelter providers. This includes day centre services and accommodation provision.
This round sees 25 organisations awarded £3.3 million to continue transforming their services and building on the work of previous funds, such as the Winter Transformation Fund and the Homelessness Transformation Fund.
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How local and regional governments can help communities deliver the housing we need
Posted 26.10.23
World Habitat: Further reading
As of 2021, house prices globally are rising at their fastest rate for 40 years far outstripping income increases in most countries. This blog, written by Yiorgos Papamanousakis and Pierre Arnold, explains the role of Community Led Housing (CLH).
It argues that CLH is characterised by a community's meaningful agency over the housing process: the control, management, and ownership of housing, and the land upon which it is built, being in the hands of a participatory and democratic institution whose principal aim is to materialise the right to housing for its members.
The blog considers the question - 'what cities can do?' and provides examples of how partnerships between cities and CLH actors can present a particularly promising approach - often referred to as Collaborative Housing.
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