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Emmaus Communities are a group of social enterprises that provide a unique and innovative solution to homelessness. Communities offer homeless and marginalised people companionship, a place to live and work, and an opportunity to integrate back into mainstream society. Emmaus Communities and the work they do are usually well known within their local area. However, the economic and social benefits they provide, not only to those who live in them but also to wider society, has not been extensively quantified. To investigate this, Emmaus engaged Just Economics to conduct a forecasted Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis. Social Return on Investment is a form of cost benefit analysis that measures and quantifies the value of social, environmental and economic outcomes that result from an intervention.
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This new report from the National Housing Federation has used research with local authorities, housing associations and central government data to build a picture of homelessness in London, the South East and East of England. It found that the number of people forced to stay in temporary continues to rise, with rough sleeping in England jumping by nearly a quarter (23%), according to a new report from the National Housing Federation. It found that a ‘perfect storm’ of rising rents, insecure private tenancies and a lack of affordable housing has led to a sharp increase in homelessness.
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This guide from the Chartered Institute of Housing looks at how local authorities can develop relationships with the private rented sector to tackle homelessness and to support tenants to sustain their tenancies in the private rented sector.
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The latest quarterly report from Savills considers what the next 5 years have in store for the UK’s prime and mainstream residential markets.
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A new paper by Michael Jacobs, visiting professor at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, seeks to locate the concept of “green growth” within the longer tradition of environmental discourse. The paper discusses the economic and social forces ranged in favour of, and against, green growth and examines how likely it is to succeed in raising the priority of environmental policy in tough economic times. Here he summarises the main points.
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The planning system has been under fire yet again from politicians for acting as a brake on development. Is this attack justified? How far should planners be going when it comes to requiring high quality, sustainable developments, and how far is too far? This webinar, held on 25 October 2012, brought together a panel of expert speakers to debate these issues.
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This issue presents an analysis of the outlook for the global economy.
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This is a series of articles focused on inclusive urban planning for the working poor, produced through a collaboration of global action-research-policy network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing & Organizing (WIEGO) and The Global Urbanist. WIEGO is a partner in the Inclusive Cities Project, a consortium of largely membership-based organisations of the working poor. Through organising and policy advocacy the Project aims to ensure that urban informal workers’ needs are heard within urban planning processes. These articles draw from the experiences in the Project, as well as those of The Global Urbanist‘s network of writers. Titles in the series include:
How street vendors and urban planners can work together.
How Brighton supports its artists working informally.
Health and sanitation is an economic right as well–just ask Ghanaian food sellers.
Here to stay: the daily challenges facing Shanghai’s ‘floating population’.
It’s time to welcome the informal workforce to the urban policy table.
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CIB W116 Student Forum, a working group of PhD, master and bachelor students on topics related to Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, has organised a series of webinars on measuring urban sustainability. Four themes will be presented and discussed: climate (28 November 2012), energy 5 December 2012), resources (12 December 2012), and urban assessment models (19 December 2012). The webinars will contain presentations of State-of-the-Art student projects, a keynote speech and reflections from a senior expert and open questions from the audience.
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This website supports local authorities across Europe in developing Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans. It is financed by the European Union under the Intelligent Energy – Europe (IEE) Programme, which is managed by the Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI).