by vf-editor | 2020/08/05 | English, News
FHA Commission Member Dame Louise Casey has been appointed for a life peerage in the House of Lords, the upper chamber of the UK Parliament. Dame Louise will sit with the “crossbench peers”, the non-party affiliated members of the Chamber. The majority of members of...
by vf-editor | 2020/07/14 | English, News
The book Street Homelessness and Catholic Theological Ethics has been awarded the second place on 2020 Catholic Book Award in the Catholic Social Teaching category, organised by the Catholic Press Association of the United States & Canada. The book has been...
by vf-editor | 2020/07/09 | covid19, English, News
One of the silver linings of the COVID crisis in the UK is that it could lead to a meaningful reduction in the numbers of people sleeping rough on our streets. Within the first three weeks of lockdown, the government, working hand in hand with the voluntary sector and...
by vf-editor | 2020/02/28 | English, News
FHA Commission member Dame Louise Casey has been appointed by the UK Prime Minister to lead a review into rough sleeping in the country. “Homelessness, and within that rough sleeping, is something that causes misery, so I hope that I will be able to help the...
by vf-editor | 2020/02/24 | English, News
The UN has adopted the first resolution defining homelessness and asking countries to measure it. For the first time in its 75 years, the UN is considering homelessness as a mainstream policy issue. The work of the Vincentians has been crucial in helping to achieve...
