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Here's how Labour can dismantle the hostile environment and end refugee homelessness in 2025. Read our director @YoungBridget in the @BigIssue now: bigissue.com/opinion/refuge…

Refugees are being made homeless in unprecedented numbers, writes our director @YoungBridget in the @BigIssue. 2025 could be a year of change. Here's how Labour can dismantle the hostile environment and end refugee homelessness this year: bigissue.com/opinion/refuge…

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a peaceful festive season from all of us at NACCOM!

"As we approach the end of 2024, things still feel daunting. We know the huge challenges that members are facing. And because of that the team at NACCOM will start 2025 full of fire and focus. We will not stop trying to change to system." - our Director, @YoungBridget

"As we approach the end of 2024, things still feel daunting. We know the huge challenges that members are facing. And because of that the team at NACCOM will start 2025 full of fire and focus. We will not stop trying to change to system". - Our Director @YoungBridget

"Despite the challenges of 2024, we still have reasons to be hopeful for 2025. After all, people experiencing destitution and homelessness hold onto hope and resistance every single day". - Our Director @YoungBridget

"Next year – and every year – we stand in solidarity with people suffering at the hands of our asylum and immigration system to call for systemic change. Everyone deserves to live with dignity and agency as part of their community" - Our Director @YoungBridget

🧵 Thread based on our Director @YoungBridget's end of year reflection. Read it in full: naccom.org.uk/despite-the-ch…

14/ As NACCOM enters its 10th year as a registered charity, we're proud to champion our belief that no-one should face homelessness and destitution because of their immigration status, and whilst this injustice exists, we will not stop trying to change to system.

12/ Despite the challenges of 2024, we still have reasons to be hopeful. After all, people experiencing destitution and homelessness hold onto hope and resistance every single day.

11/ And we will continue to work with members, partners and people with lived experience to find practical solutions to housing need, improve the legal aid system, lift the ban on the right to work, and improve the funding environment for vital services.

For lots of reasons, 2024 ended up being quite full-on!  Here’s our wrap-up of NACCOM’s year (a thread). 🧵

10/ We will continue to advocate for the mainstreaming of migrant homelessness, and for the government to follow through on in its pledges to revitalize the building of social housing and improve rights and access in the private rented sector.

9/ So the team at NACCOM will start 2025 full of fire and focus. We will make the case for continued improvements to the move-on process to make the most of the 56-day extension, fighting to expand it and to make it permanent.

8/ As we approach the end of 2024, things still feel daunting. We know the huge challenges that members are facing, particularly around funding and changes to National Insurance.

7/ ...Plus we are finally talking more openly about racism within the asylum and immigration system; we had huge interest in our recently published housing association toolkit; and the 56 day move-on period was extended (temporarily).

6/ The Rwanda Plan was scrapped. The Bibby Stockholm barge contract was cancelled. Parts of the Illegal Migration Act were immediately dismantled. Home Office HMOs were still required to meet licensing standards...

5/ The second part of 2024 saw us all continuing to deliver the best services possible. And we had some big wins....

4/ Summer was momentous, with a general election that ushered in a change of government, and summer riots that laid bare racism and division, swiftly followed by communities uniting in a defiant show of tolerance and peace.

3/ Late winter/early spring saw us dealing with surges in demand, particularly from newly granted refugees being rushed out of Home Office accommodation. We continued to work with wider coalitions such as @RefugeeTogether, #LiftTheBan and the Fight the Anti-Refugee Laws Pledge.