For Inside Housing I looked at how trauma-informed approaches were being used to address “anti-social behaviour”.
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Levels of poverty are rising in the UK due to the cost of living crisis. As a result, the pressure on GPs has grown. I wrote this feature for the British Medical Journal about what that looks like for practices and what it means for the profession.
Read the full article here.
This was one of the pieces that has come out of my project with the Museum of Homelessness.
Like many migrants, Adam came to the UK to support his family – his wife, son and parents – who stayed behind in Poland. He had been working as a chef for three years when his world ended. His family, all of them, died in a car crash. Nine years on, Adam still lives with the trauma and depression from those tragic events – but that was just the start.
Read the full article here.
Hundreds of Commonwealth nationals evicted under anti-migrant ‘right to rent’ rule
Posted: February 19, 2019 in articles, housingFigures obtained by Politics.co.uk reveal that almost 300 Commonwealth nationals have been evicted from their homes under the government’s controversial ‘right to rent’ rules, raising concerns that members of the Windrush generation could have been affected.
Over the past year I’ve been busy working on a jointly-authored book for the newly-incarnated Left Book Club.
The Rent Trap brings together a lot of the work myself and Rosie Walker have been doing on housing as journalists and activists. We interviewed everyone from policy-makers to people living in the worst housing conditions, and many degrees in between. What we are aiming to do is show why we have fallen into a rent trap, and look at some of the things we can do about it. Publication is due in March 2016. To find out more, check out the Left Book Club site.
Samir Jeraj - Freelance Journalist 