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Meeting the supported housing needs of black and minority ethnic communities
Jones, Adrian & Bignall, Tracey, Better Housing 19, Race Equality Foundation, 2012
The briefing examines the use of specialist housing services to support black and minority ethnic communities, providing good practice examples for... -
Housing benefit and welfare reform: Impact of the proposed changes on black and minority ethnic communities
Beasor, Sue, Housing Quality Network, Better Housing Briefing Paper 18, Race Equality Foundation, 2011
The coalition government has introduced a package of measures intended to reduce the increasing cost of Housing Benefit (HB). This paper examines the... -
Housing and identity: how place makes race
Dorling, Danny, Better Housing Briefing Paper 17, Race Equality Foundation, 2011
This opinion piece describes the interaction between ‘place’ and ‘race’, arguing that in more unequal societies race becomes... -
Black and minority ethnic communities' experience of overcrowding
Jones, Adrian, Better Housing Briefing Paper 16, Race Equality Foundation, 2010
The issue of overcrowding, how it can be defined and what steps can be can be taken to resolve it, has been recognised as a major, and increasing,... -
Linking black and minority ethnic organisations with mainstream homeless service providers
Netto, Gina & Gavrielides, Theo, Better Housing Briefing Paper 15, Race Equality Foundation, 2010
This paper argues that homelessness service provision to black and minority ethnic communities should be informed by in-depth knowledge and... -
Harnessing the talents of marginalised communities
Jones, Patricia A & Hussain, Sarfraz, Better Housing Briefing Paper 14, Race Equality Foundation, 2010
This paper encourages social housing providers to forge meaningful relationships with refugee community organisations and others right from the... -
Monitoring the ethnicity of housing service users: forty years of progress?
Jones, Adrian, Better Housing Briefing Paper 13, Race Equality Foundation, 2009
It is 40 years since ethnic monitoring in housing services was first recommended, but this paper suggests that true monitoring is in decline. Whilst... -
Refugee community organisations: working in partnership to improve access to housing services
Jones, Patricia A & Mullins, David, Better Housing Briefing Paper 12, Race Equality Foundation, 2009
Housing services for refugees are better targeted and delivered when refugee community organisations (RCOs) are involved as partners: this means... -
Looking to the future: changing black and minority ethnic housing needs and aspirations
Markkanen, Sanna, Better Housing Briefing Paper 11, Race Equality Foundation, 2009
This paper examines the housing needs and aspirations of England’s largest black and minority ethnic populations. It sets out to identify how... -
Gypsies, Travellers and accommodation
Greenfields, Margaret, Better Housing Briefing Paper 10, Race Equality Foundation, 2009
This paper examines the accommodation needs and experiences of Gypsy-Travellers. Highlighting in particular...
Briefings
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