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028 9024 5640: Housing & Debt Helpline for Northern Ireland
Housing Rights gave oral evidence to the Joint Inquiry by the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee and the Work and Pensions Committee. This Inquiry is specifically interested in the planned end of welfare mitigations in March 2020, Universal Credit (UC) and the two child limit.
Housing Rights has been successful in securing funding to strengthen the voice of those renting privately in Northern Ireland.
Kate McCauley, Policy & Practice Manger with Housing Rights welcomed the funding:
The Social Security Committee of the Scottish Parliament has released a report on Social Security Support for Housing
The UN Special Rapporteur on racism and human rights Professor Tendayi Achiume has has published a report on racism and discrimination in the UK. The report makes specific mention of the controversial "right to rent" checks as a policy that claims to be racially-neutral, but has an ultimately discriminatory impact on people from minority backgrounds.
Housing Rights summer to autumn training programme has just been released. Based on your feedback we have come up with a range of sessions all aimed at making your job easier.
