Blogs in Poverty

House prices set to flatline in 2017, but what about the homeless?

The UK is currently at the centre of a major housing crisis. However, according to industry forecasts, the British property market’s post-crash boom will come to a halt in 2017 when house prices flatline after five years of increase. Property firms have forecasted that economic uncertainty would lead to weaker ...

The Government Must Stop Favouring the Old Over the Young

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has today published a report, which highlights a growing disparity in poverty rates among various age groups over the last decade. While the level of poverty has fallen by 30% among the over 65s, poverty numbers have increased in every other demographic.The failure of successive ...