News and Updates
February 27, 2026
When strategy meets delivery: England's homelessness paradox
Progress towards ending homelessness depends on coordinated delivery rather than policy consensus alone, argues Ligia Teixeira, chief executive of the Centre for Homelessness Impact
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February 26, 2026
How strategic authorities can set regional ambition - and deliver on it
The Government’s National Plan to End Homelessness calls for stronger regional leadership. But how can regional bodies turn this ambition into practical action? Our Implementation Lead, Jenny, discusses our work in the Liverpool City Region and beyond, to drive a preventative approach to homelessness. This demonstrates that strategic authorities can drive prevention through whole-system coordination, shared outcomes, data infrastructure and political accountability.
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February 24, 2026
When asylum and homelessness collide
In the UK, newly recognised refugees must leave asylum accommodation within weeks, often before securing housing or benefits. As UK asylum decisions accelerate, Ligia Teixeira discusses how misaligned national and Scottish systems shift costs locally, driving the risk of homelessness through poorly managed transitions.
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February 10, 2026
The futures we are quietly breaking
Child homelessness is not merely a housing crisis, argues CHI's CEO Ligia Teixeira, but a systemic failure that quietly erodes children’s freedoms, development and future life chances.
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January 27, 2026
Ending homelessness and the hard work of holding the line
Our CEO, Ligia Teixeira, argues that ending homelessness is not just about thinking long term, but about actively designing systems that can learn, adapt and hold their course under pressure.
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January 15, 2026
What Wales’s latest homelessness data tells us: trends in rough sleeping and temporary accommodation
Alice Gilderdale, Implementation Lead at CHI, reflect on the some of the latest homelessness data from Wales.
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January 15, 2026
What works to end migrant rough sleeping?
Our Programme Lead, Kerri, shares reflections from a project offering short-term housing, holistic support and an opportunity to receive specialist immigration advice. The Accommodation and Immigration Advice project is crucial to better understand how local authorities can help people who are experiencing rough sleeping and who are excluded from mainstream support.
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January 6, 2026
Beyond resolutions: what we need to maintain and what we need to build
Ligia Teixeira writes about why we need to take maintenance of our social security safety net as seriously as we take reform.
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