Chris Hancock

@YoungBridget @Springboks Are you South African? I never thought to ask....🏆🇿🇦

In bed this morning drinking koffie, eating Ouma rusks and rewatching videos about the @Springboks win last night 🥰🏉🇿🇦#RWC2023 #RSAvNZL

Anyone who lives in Hastings can have their say on the new housing allocations policy. The policy sets out how the council decides whether someone can apply for social housing and how high they should be placed on the housing register, depending on their individual needs.

Homelessness is a Housing Problem and Hastings is a extremely stark example of that fact. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-670769…

Housing Associations have a crucial role in preventing and ending homelessness. I’m really proud to have joined the board of Homes for Cathy. It would be great to see Housing sector colleagues at our conference in London later this month. homesforcathy.org.uk/2023-conference

Spent the morning keeping quiet and not using any bandwidth while @EllaRHancock chaired her way through this, engaging hundreds with a compelling case for a housing led end to homelessness in Central & Eastern Europe. Super proud.

@mcoll72 It's pronounced shithọlę

@Chanco81 Shithole

Bereft to be leaving this Polish idyll tomorrow after 2 glorious weeks. Kocham Polskę 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱

Yes absolutely! excellent to see the launch of the #everyonehomecollective PRS Routemap promoting the PRS as a way out of homelessness

@katefaz @crisis_uk @CescaAlbanese Very much so Romulus.

@Chanco81 @crisis_uk @CescaAlbanese End of an era!

Last day @crisis_uk after 9 wonderful years, leaving do activities were expertly judged @katefaz. @CescaAlbanese Will miss the place terribly but have absolutely no doubt that ending homelessness in the best hands.

@CescaAlbanese @crisis_uk @katefaz Yeah 'saved'.....❤️

@Chanco81 @crisis_uk @katefaz Missing you and your local authority/housing knowledge already 😊. I saved you from the KPI quiz round!

Also means stepping down @HomesforCathy where there have also been many many highlights...and leaving it in similarly good hands.

Have been looking out for this 🤓…really would’ve liked to see more on expectations for tackling homelessness but proposals are frustratingly weak on this. Our work w/ @HomesforCathy provides a good starting point for some reasonable asks that have potential for notable impact

In our new blog, @SYorksHA @charlottewheat looks at the local partnerships the association is nurturing to provide housing and support to people seeking sanctuary & fulfil its H4C commitment to contribute to ending migrant homelessness. homesforcathy.org.uk/2023/07/25/nur…

The term 'vulnerable' can also be stigmatising, which is why we're proposing to update the Homes for Cathy commitments to make it clear that people experiencing homelessness are also disadvantaged and underserved by existing policy and practice.

Homelessness is a housing issue. Most people are homeless because of a lack of a safe, settled & truly affordable home. If people do need access to support services, having a home also makes it possible to engage, instead having to battle the trauma of homelessness everyday

" it is the funding structure that should be the focus of any scepticism, rather than the Housing First model itself. " Absolutely, spot on, as always, from @AlexLSmith1983 . Such an odd and circular argument to have to refute....

@MayazRah I raise you swimming lessons with Performing Arts extravaganza...finished with 10 mins to spare..otherwise there would have been scenes.

Bloody kids swimming lessons, interrupting traitors day

Another important study into the key drivers/solutions to homelessness (US based but plenty of recognisable similarities w/Britain). No surprise that all routes both into & out of homelessness involve housing. Shame too many decision makers in UK govt don’t get this

And in case anyone needs convincing of the link, here's a map of homeless rates across the country (left) and house prices (right). See a pattern?