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Wider regulation, more technical and financial support and better monitoring systems are priority requirements for promoting district heating in the social housing sector, according to a new research report. Published by environmental charity Changeworks, District heating: Delivering affordable and

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Researchers on a project jointly managed by the Centre for Sustainable Energy and Changeworks are calling on social landlords to give their views and experiences of district heating. On the face of it, there is a good fit between district heating and blocks of homes owned by housing associations and

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Julia Unwin Julia Unwin CBE, the chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust (JRHT), is stepping down from her role at the end of 2016 after leading the organisations for the past 10 years.

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A groundbreaking study into destitution in the UK has revealed that 1.25 million people, including over 300,000 children, are so poor they cannot afford to eat properly, keep clean or stay warm and dry. Research from the independent Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) estimated that 184,500 households

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Two of Scotland's cities have been named among the fastest-declining places in the UK by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). A JRF report, titled ‘Uneven growth: tackling city decline’, considered a range of long-term economic factors including population change, unemployment rates, job creati

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Scotland’s ambitions to tackle homelessness are under threat according to a new report published today by national homelessness charity Crisis and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The report shows 28,615 homelessness assessments by councils last year – a fall of 5 per cent on the previous year. H

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New Welsh legislation aimed at preventing homelessness has been welcomed in research released today by homelessness charity Crisis. However, the report warns that welfare reforms and cuts introduced by the UK government risk undermining any progress achieved, while the Renting Homes (Wales) Bill cur

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Almost two-thirds of children in poverty are living with parents who work, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has found. A new study by the research institute concluded that while levels of absolute child poverty were unchanged between 2009/10 and 2013/14, the proportion living in a working fami

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