30 Jul 12

A Hobsons choice: Dealing with the fall out of Government cuts to housing benefit.

One of this months blogs comes from Romin Sutherland of The NextDoor Project, part of the Zaccheaus 2000 Trust, which offers a range of services to people affected by the cuts to housing benefit.His blogexplains how the NextDoor project is helping those households affected by the cuts, and the...

03 Jul 12

Increasing the parity of the pound for social housing tenants - How systemic financial inclusion can help mitigate the impact of welfare reform

The Governments welfare reform programme fails to address the high level of financial exclusion amongst social housing tenants and the lack of suitable systems to make the changes work as intended. Given this low level of financial inclusion, the welfare reforms have the potential to create a...