News and Updates
January 15, 2026
What Wales’s latest homelessness data tells us: trends in rough sleeping and temporary accommodation
Alice Gilderdale, Implementation Lead at CHI, reflect on the some of the latest homelessness data from Wales.
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January 15, 2026
What works to end migrant rough sleeping?
Our Programme Lead, Kerri, shares reflections from a project offering short-term housing, holistic support and an opportunity to receive specialist immigration advice. The Accommodation and Immigration Advice project is crucial to better understand how local authorities can help people who are experiencing rough sleeping and who are excluded from mainstream support.
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January 6, 2026
Beyond resolutions: what we need to maintain and what we need to build
Ligia Teixeira writes about why we need to take maintenance of our social security safety net as seriously as we take reform.
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December 30, 2025
Groundbreaking study begins to reveal how £2,000 grant helps people escape homelessness
News of CHI's study into £2000 cash grants.
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December 17, 2025
Shifting the narrative on homelessness
As 2025 draws to a close, Danielle shares her experiences of taking part in media interviews this year, and how she’s using her voice to shift perspectives of homelessness.
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December 16, 2025
Schools will no longer be the last to know: why this new law matters
Lígia Teixeira writes about how the recent amendment announced to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill marks a significant step forward.
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December 11, 2025
A promising new plan for ending homelessness in England, and how we can help it succeed
Ligia Teixeira, Chief Executive, reflects on England’s new National Plan to End Homelessness. She highlights that one of the most significant aspects of the strategy is its explicit recognition that homelessness cannot be solved by any single department, and that tackling it requires alignment across social security, health, justice, housing and local government.
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December 10, 2025
Testing the impact of volunteer-led support
This article discusses our work evaluating the impact of providing people with experience of homelessness with flexible, volunteer-led one-to-one support, called Citadel.
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