News and Updates
August 14, 2020
Accelerating impact: reflections on the Impact Festival 2020
Over the past 5 weeks, we've held over 50 events, hearing from over 150 speakers who made the space in their busy diaries to join us. In this blog post our CEO Dr Ligia Teixeira reflects on the Festival and what’s next to come.
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August 7, 2020
Impact Festival: week four in summary
Our Lived Experience Specialist, Hannah Green, shares her learning from week four of the Impact Festival – where we explored the importance of connecting people with place, and with each other.
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September 24, 2020
Local Authorities invited to improve their homelessness services using data and evidence
The Centre for Homelessness Impact is recruiting local authorities to join their What Works Community: Local Government initiative which will focus on evidence-led methods of ending and preventing homelessness.
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August 6, 2020
What the latest street homelessness statistics in London tell us about how the population is changing
Our Evidence and Data team explore some of the trends in the newly released figures for street homelessness in London (CHAIN data), and suggest some areas to focus on as we move into the next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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July 29, 2020
Impact Festival: a summary of week two
How do we create a housing system that leaves no one behind? We brought 27 speakers together across six events to put an intersectional lens on not just improving availability and access to housing, but making sure the housing we have is of sufficient quality and appropriate to people's needs.
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July 20, 2020
Impact Festival: a summary of our first week
The first week of our Impact Festival included a total of 13 events, with 32 different speakers. It focused on the ‘S’ of our SHARE framework; designing smart policies and programmes.
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July 9, 2020
It's time to make an Impact: Impact Festival kicks off on Monday
With speakers including Minister Julie James, John Kay and David Halpern, you won't want to miss week one of the Impact Festival.
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June 26, 2020
Introducing the 2020 Homelessness Impact Festival
Dr Ligia Teixeira shares her vision for the 2020 Impact Festival
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