No bias in housing allocation to migrants

The vast majority of people who live in social housing in Britain were born in the UK, according to a research study published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
The study found that less than two per cent of all social housing residents are people who have moved to Britain in the last five years [...]

Door Step refugee advice project now online

Door Step Equal Access is a unique multimedia project with a  participative approach to the development and delivery of information, advice and support services.
Paula’s Story is a short drama researched, written, acted in and filmed by the  five refugees who took part in the Door Step project in Glasgow, Scotland. It tells the story of [...]

Home from Home: migrant housing report from BSHF

Migrant workers come to the UK to seek employment but all too often find themselves living in expensive, overcrowded and poor-quality accommodation. This report seeks to make a fresh assessment of this important issue.

No Place Like Home? new Shelter publication

Homelessness charity Shelter has criticised inadequate housing conditions for migrants in a report.
No Place Like Home? is a discussion document focusing on the sizeable number of migrants who are homeless or in bad housing, but who fall outside of any kind of mainstream housing or welfare provision. In sections, the paper looks at:

The housing situation [...]

New migrant housing rights website for England

The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) and the Housing Associations’ Charitable Trust (hact) have launched the first housing rights website to be specifically aimed at answering housing rights queries for new migrants in England.
Visitors to the site, at www.housing-rights.info , are able enter as either frontline housing advisers or new arrivals to receive advice and [...]

Refugee homelessness in Glasgow

The Scottish Government has just published the latest national figures on homelessness. The trend appears to be downward, but there is a significant rise in families living in temporary homelessness accommodation – a problem highlighted earlier this year at the Shared Futures refugee housing seminar in Glasgow.
The UK-wide Home Office legacy review (of unresolved asylum [...]

Shared Futures: Glasgow refugee housing seminar report

A short report on the Shared Futures seminar: a Refugee Week 2008 event in Glasgow that brought together housing providers, planners, funders, support agencies, refugee residents and community organisations.
The Shared Futures seminar was organised by Community InfoSource and Govan Housing Association’s Community Inclusion Coordinator. The aims were to contribute to the local and national [...]

The Situation of the Roma Community in Glasgow

Facing increased hardship, racism and discrimination in Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of the state socialist regimes, the Roma have fled their worsening situation in greater numbers, first as asylum seekers and later, after May 2004, as ‘new’ citizens of an enlarged European Union (EU). However, they have been met by a new [...]

Undocumented: a life of poverty, exploitation and danger

An undercover investigation by the BBC looks at the hidden world of undocumented Punjabi migrants in London. The hidden-camera investigation (with sensationalist headlines “Migrant criminal network exposed” and “Life as an illegal immigrant”) reports that these mostly young, Punjabi men are subsisting through poorly paid, dangerous and demeaning work, and are forced to rely on [...]

Opening Doors project

Opening Doors is a joint initiative of Hact and the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH).
Launched in September 2006, Opening Doors is testing practical ways that housing associations (in England) can meet the housing needs of refugees, asylum seekers and other newly arrived migrant communities.

This Housing Corporation and CLG-funded project aims to integrate and mainstream [...]