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September 8, 2020

Centre for Homelessness Impact and Cardiff University lead new major trial

The Centre for Homelessness Impact in partnership with Cardiff University has been awarded funding to deliver an innovative study evaluating the effectiveness of local authority responses to homelessness following COVID-19.

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September 4, 2020

How can the media help us end homelessness?

During our Impact Festival we held a discussion with a panel of journalists on the role the media plays in ending homelessness. Here, our Lived Experiences Specialist Hannah Green explores that question further.

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August 28, 2020

Systematic review: Do discharge programmes reduce the likelihood of homelessness?

Our Head of Evidence and Data, Guillermo Rodriguez-Guzman, shares key findings from our systematic review, on the effectiveness of discharge programmes for individuals experiencing, or at risk of experiencing homelessness.

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August 24, 2020

Evictions ban: where to now?

The ban on possession proceedings in England and Wales has been extended until 20th September. It will be important to use the next four weeks wisely to stop evictions leading to a rise in homelessness, explains CHI’s CEO Dr Ligia Teixeira.

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August 19, 2020

Impact Festival 2020 Highlights

In this blog post our Lived Experiences Specialist, Hannah Green, picks out the teams personal highlights along with the key take-home messages

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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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community updates

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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