London Housing Foundation
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Atlas refresh 2022 coming soonMarch 3, 2022 9:25 amIt’s that time of year again when we launch the LHF Atlas with refreshed data and statistics. The 2022 release will go live next week. Becky Rice, LHF Atlas Manager, explains how data collection has been progressing and what we can look forward to this year. Full annual data refresh We start the Atlas refresh […]Read More
Atlas Borough spotlight: HackneyJanuary 25, 2022 1:44 pmFor our latest Atlas blog, Atlas project manager Becky Rice, and Sabrina Pathan, Housing Needs Manager from the London Borough of Hackney, explored the Borough Focus map for Hackney. For more information about the borough focus please see the introductory blog in this series. Outreach People currently experiencing rough sleeping are served by LB Hackney’s […]Read More
Andrew Kefford InterviewJanuary 19, 2022 9:32 amAndrew Kefford is head of housing solutions for Runnymede Council with responsibility for housing advice, homelessness prevention, temporary accommodation and private sector leasing scheme. He graduated from the LHF sponsored post graduate certificate in Leadership and Management; housing and homelessness at London South Bank University in the summer of 2021. We asked him about the course. […]Read More
Atlas – new blog series, borough spotlightsJanuary 17, 2022 4:40 pmIn our latest blog, Becky Rice, LHF project manager, provides an overview of the Borough Focus part of LHF’s Atlas of London’s Homelessness Services. The most well used part of the Atlas is the London Map, and my personal favourite is the infographic. Recently though we have been digging into the ‘Borough Focus’ tab a […]Read More
Maddie Marcateus InterviewJanuary 11, 2022 1:18 pmFinancial education charity MyBnk’s project The Money House were the winners of the 2021 London Homelessness Awards, receiving a prize of £30,000. We asked Madeleine Marcateus of MyBnk to tell us more about what they do. What is your role? I joined MyBnk as the project manager for The Money House in July 2021 and […]Read More
Southwark Law Centre Win £20,000 Prize at London Homelessness AwardsNovember 25, 2021 12:00 pmSouthwark Law Centre (SLC) won in the London Homelessness Awards recently, and gained a prize of £20,000. We asked them to tell us about some of the people they have worked with recently. All names have been changed. Tony was a homeless EEA national who had recently had his foot amputated. Doctors assessed that if […]Read More
Sharon Munnings InterviewNovember 18, 2021 10:00 amSharon Munnings is Head of Operations for a registered charity and graduated from the LHF sponsored post graduate certificate in housing and homelessness at London South Bank University in the summer of 2021. We asked her about the course. Where did you hear about the course? A friend of mine did the course a few […]Read More
Westminster homelessness charity awarded £10,000 for work during pandemicNovember 16, 2021 12:42 pmSt. Mungo’s street outreach service was recognized by the London Homelessness Awards for its role in the government’s “everyone in” pledge during the first COVID-19 lockdown in a ceremony on 14 October. The service has operated in Westminster, which has the highest number of rough sleepers of any borough in the UK, since 2018. Manager […]Read More
