News and Updates
May 25, 2024
NHS patients sent from hospital to the street
This article by Holly Bancroft, Social Affairs Correspondent at The Independent and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Reporting Hopelessness, looks at how patients are discharged from hospital and into homelessness
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May 14, 2024
Open call to join the Centre for Homelessness Impact (CHI) Peer Review Panel
CHI is seeking to recruit a diverse group of individuals who, we anticipate, will have a wide range of interests and expertise in the evaluation of housing and homelessness programmes and interventions. We are looking to appoint independent anonymous peer reviewers to provide additional scrutiny and support to independent evaluators working on rigorous evaluation of the implementation, process, cost and impact of interventions, programmes and policies.
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Ending homelessness for everyone, not just those we count
Heather McCluskey, our Implementation Lead reports back from a mutual learning event organised by EuroCities focusing on women’s and LGBTQ+ experiences of homelessness in Dusseldorf. She finds hope in new, inclusive ways of counting and measuring homelessness.
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March 21, 2024
CHI appoints three new trustees
Three new members have been appointed to CHI's board of trustees
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March 21, 2024
Speech to Homelessness NSW conference in Newcastle, Australia
Our chief executive gave the keynote address to the Homelessness New South Wales Conference 2024 in Newcastle, Australia. This is an edited version of her speech
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March 13, 2024
Using peer influencing to improve homelessness healthcare
Short films co-produced with health and care professionals will seek to raise awareness of the ground-breaking NICE guideline on care for people expieriencing homelessness, says our Director of Communications and Public Engagement
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March 6, 2024
Director appointed to lead £15m innovation programme
Michelle Binfield has joined the CHI team as Director of Programmes
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September 29, 2024
Rising levels of homelessness will require a long-term response
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has published both its annual rough sleeping snapshot and its quarterly figures for numbers of families in Temporary Accommodation. Both these measures of very different forms of homelessness are now at high or record levels - illustrating the scale of the challenge ahead.
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