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February 2nd, 2012 by Mike BarrettPerhaps single homeless people just aren’t vulnerable enough
Despite vital new funding for Porchlight in the form of £250k from the Homeless Transition Fund and £160k from Crisis, this year is going to be one of the most testing and challenging the supported housing sector as a whole has ever faced. The austerity measures will really start to bite and the incumbent “reforms” … read full post
December 6th, 2011 by Mike BarrettWe will be judged by future generations
Reading a recent edition of Inside Housing Magazine, Jeremy Swain, CEO at Thames Reach, a London- based charity helping the homeless, raises a very interesting point. Following a visit to a soup kitchen on The Strand he comes across an ex-tenant of theirs and assumes wrongly that he has lost the accommodation he secured some … read full post
November 8th, 2011 by Mike BarrettSurely compassion is a basic human instinct?
Loneliness, or “social isolation” as the social scientists like to label it, appears to be the debate of the month. Both Prospect Magazine and the RSA’s autumn journal discuss the impact or likely impact of growing older and the importance of building up friendships to see one through the desolate years following the death of … read full post
October 3rd, 2011 by Mike BarrettAn unfair, uncaring and unworkable society
I think it was Aristotle who said, “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” It appears those words are so very relevant today. The recent London riots happened as a result of a mixture of poverty, criminality and a lack of moral discipline. The question is now being asked why? And yet the voices … read full post
August 15th, 2011 by Mike BarrettSurely common sense is out there somewhere?
Stuck in a traffic jam on the M1 returning from a recent conference, I started to think about what was said and debated. My mood became more depressed as I realised that I can’t remember the last meeting or conference within nearly two years where the “agenda” was not full of doom and gloom. It … read full post
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