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There have been numerous complaints around invoicing for works which haven’t taken place, which is part of the reason some services, less than 1/3 will be coming back in-house.
Guardianship schemes Brighton & Hove Housing Coalition is in favour in principle of the idea of using properties that are standing empty pending redevelopment or demolition as temporary homes for…
Totally shocking report into Unregulated Care Homes for Children with the care system, including the alarming rise in this profitable sector in the last ten years.
Hyde/BHCC property development: Whitehawk Whitehawk Hill (http://www.redearth.co.uk/whitehawk.html) On Brighton’s Whitehawk Hill lie traces of an ancient ritual monument known as Whitehawk Camp. Older than Stonehenge, 5,500 years ago this Neolithic enclosure…
Our homeless citizens are most at risk in this emergency. “People experiencing homelessness are a very high-risk group [for covid-19]. Compared to the general population people experiencing homelessness are 2.5 times more likely to have asthma, 6.5 times more likely to have heart disease, 10 times more likely to have COPD and 34 times more likely to have tuberculosis” (Pathway).
Human Rights Activists are Finding that the rights of its city’s homeless population were often being neglected, the Brighton and Hove Housing Coalition – a group of housing activist organizations and individuals – brought the Homeless Bill of Rights before their council. David Thomas explains how BHHC did it and what the future might look like for a city that has adopted the Homeless Bill of Rights.
As lockdown measures are eased, we are extremely concerned that some homeless people, particularly those with NRPF, may be evicted from council-provided accommodation and be forced to return to destitution. This would be a moral, humanitarian and public health catastrophe, especially given that many shelters will be unable to reopen due to ongoing social distancing requirements.
Dumped in Emergency Accommodation to Rot Campaigners in Brighton and Hove were recently contacted by a vulnerable Brighton man who claims to have been left to “rot” and feels he…
Last Year housing campaigner John Hadman started a visionary campaign which would propose the council acquire the former popular nightclub Ocean Rooms located at Morley Street Brighton. John who is…
Council Tenants left frustrated with a six month Housing Repair backlog months after bringing the service back in house
