🚨 | NEW REPORT: No one should be pushed into homelessness after leaving asylum accommodation. Ministers must act now to prevent a repeat of the 2023 spike - with enough notice, earlier council data and practical move-on support.
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5/5 ✅
Our recommendations:
🏠 Make the 42-day move-on period work in practice
🤝 Embed immigration advice in homelessness services
📋 Assess homelessness impacts when developing immigration policy
📊 Improve Home Office–council data sharing
Read more: www.ippr.org/articles/clo...
4/5 💡
The report also highlights examples of what works.
We found evidence that bringing together housing support, welfare advice and specialist immigration advice can help prevent rough sleeping, reduce destitution and improve housing outcomes.
3/5 📈
One ongoing concern is the transition out of asylum accommodation.
Reducing the asylum backlog is important, and faster decisions are generally a positive thing.
But our research suggests that housing support needs to keep pace, so people don't fall through the gaps between systems.
2/5 🏠
Our interviews found that immigration status can shape access to housing support, benefits and homelessness assistance.
As a result, events such as job loss, relationship breakdown or leaving asylum accommodation can increase the risk of homelessness.
1/5 📢
Today we published a new @ippr.org report on how asylum and immigration policy shape homelessness in England.
Homelessness is rarely caused by one factor alone. It often happens when housing, welfare, employment and immigration systems fail to work together.
www.ippr.org/articles/clo...
An excellent piece written by my colleague @aleishao.bsky.social 👇
It's very good to see the government explicitly acknowledge 'no recourse to public funds' in their child poverty strategy.
The strategy commits the government to supporting vulnerable children regardless of immigration status.
Immigration status has become one of the clearest fault lines running through England’s housing and homelessness system. Around a quarter of people rough s
