Topic description and stories

A Northern Mill town

Study finds premise behind bedroom tax is ‘fundamentally flawed’

18 Jun 2014

A new study shows that more than half of English homes - which are the smallest by floor area in Europe - fall short of modern space standards...

Read more
Chipping Camden, Gloucestershire. A new report argues that changes to the ways in which housing benefits are administered are likely to force large numbers of people who rent from the council or housing associations in rural areas out of their communities

Benefit changes raise pressure on country life

14 May 2012

Significant numbers of social tenants in rural areas may have to move away from their friends and communities because of changes to housing benefit...

Read more
The Blind Beggar and his Grand-daughter

Benefiting from history

24 Feb 2012

A Cambridge academic’s research into the final days of the Old English Poor Law has thrown up some remarkable parallels to today’s welfare state –...

Read more