Samir Jeraj – Freelance Journalist

For Inside Housing magazine, I wrote about the 1965 Race Relations Act, the first piece of race equality legislation in the UK.

Sixty years ago, a Labour government was facing pressure to restrict migration. Race relations were at a low point following a series of race riots over the preceding years, protests against discrimination and a shock 1964 election defeat in Smethwick, where Conservative candidate Peter Griffiths defeated the incumbent Labour MP using the slogan “if you want a n***** for a neighbour, vote Labour”.

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I wrote for Inside Housing Management about how housing associations are preparing for the introduction of Awaab’s Law, named after Awaab Ishak.

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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.

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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. 

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Figures 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.

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