A Tidal Wave of Homelessness Is Coming
Unless the government acts now to ban evictions and freeze or cap rents, we’re facing a catastrophic wave of homelessness this winter.
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Liz Davies KC is a barrister specialising in housing and homelessness law. She is co-author of Housing Allocation and Homelessness: Law and Practice (Luba, Davies, Johnston & Buchanan, LexisNexis, 2022), and of the Society for Labour Lawyers’ Proposals for Housing Law Reform (2021). She contributed to Housing is a Human Right (Labour Housing Group and Labour Campaign for Human Rights, 2022).
Unless the government acts now to ban evictions and freeze or cap rents, we’re facing a catastrophic wave of homelessness this winter.
Last year’s ‘Everyone In’ policy proved that no-one has to sleep rough. As the temperature drops to freezing, we need to learn its lessons – and force the government to end homelessness for good.
Hammersmith and Fulham Council has been told to reinstate Stan Keable, a worker fired for comments made at a 2018 Jewish Voice for Labour rally.
In the wake of revelations in the leaked Labour Party report, former NEC member Liz Davies recalls her battles against the party right-wing under Blair—and says little has changed