Policy briefings
Housing Benefits, Not Barriers (October 2008)
Crisis and Shelter have come together to call on the Government to ensure that their review of Housing Benefit delivers genuine change and creates a Housing Benefit system which is a real benefit not a barrier, that encourages people both to move into work and to progress in the workplace. Download PDF (5 pages)
Housing Benefits Briefing (October 2008)
The current Housing Benefit system creates huge barriers for those trying to move into work and also for those in low paid work trying to increase their earnings. These and related problems are analysed in this policy briefing.
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Single Room Rent (SRR) - the case for abolition (Oct 2006)
A call by a coalition of organisations including Crisis for ministers to scrap a welfare rule causing hardship and homelessness among young and vulnerable adults, by capping the amount of help they can receive towards their rent. Download policy report / Download press release.
From the margins to the mainstream: A new model of public service delivery (Dec 05)
Crisis' case for the need for mainstream public services that can reach those individuals who are not being engaged by existing services, that recognize the inter-connected nature of people’s needs, and deliver services which are "person-centred" Download Policy report / Download press release.
Hidden Homelessness: Seventeen Solutions (Sept 04)
Based upon a review of existing government policy, interviews with homeless people and Crisis’ frontline experience, Hidden Homelessness 17 Solutions is Crisis’ contribution to the question of how we might begin to tackle the growing hidden homelessness problem. Download PDF (556k)
Compassion not coercion - Addressing the issue of begging (March 2003)Download PDF (221k)
Critical Condition - Homeless people's access to GPs (Dec 2002). Download the policy paper (314k) / Download the media brief (452k)
A Question of Vulnerability - Single homeless people and access to social housing (Oct 2002) Download PDF (187k)
Not just another form - Guide to measuring single homelessness (2001) Download PDF (194k)
