@KCLGeography | Author ✍️ Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State (2025) | UK / Cambodia | Editor Transactions of IBG | Views own |
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Out today: Debt Trap Nation, published on #WorldHomelessDay.
Our book exposes how UK govt policy is driving families – esp domestic abuse survivors – into debt, homelessness & poverty.
All royalties to Surviving Economic Abuse. 💜
@melnowicki
📖 waterstones.com/book/debt-tr…
Prof Katherine Brickell retweeted
1,500 homes on this development and only a measly 168 for Social Rent.
Recent figures say 25,000 to 28,000+ HOUSEHOLDS in Greenwich are waiting for a Social Rented home.
Jesus wept 🫤
🚨1,500 NEW HOMES set for approval on Greenwich Peninsula.
The 'Morden Wharf' scheme will turn a 13.8-acre former glucose refinery into towers of up to 36 storeys, delivering:
🏘️1,500 homes
⚖️168 social rent homes
🏞️A new public park
🤝Retail and community spaces
Before & after ⤵️
Follow the YIMBY Alliance TikTok: tiktok.com/@yimbyalliance
Prof Katherine Brickell retweeted
🚨 Meet point announcement! Assemble 1pm at Soho Square Gardens!
💥 Thousands of tenants. 60+ unions and grassroots campaigns. One message.
✊ Let's make housing affordable again.
Prof Katherine Brickell retweeted
Warm words and unarguable sentiments in Bridget Phillipson's speech but #SEND reforms VERY light on details - not least addressing critical workforce shortages, meaningful funding, access to FE and training, and ultimately work/life chances.
Hope there is much more in the White Paper.
On the point of private equity - need an interrogation and reforms re private equity in education, nurseries, social care, NHS, land, agriculture public sector - every area!
Prof Katherine Brickell retweeted
Hot off the press!
'Pandemic Geographies of Home: Domestic Thresholding in Response to COVID-19' draws on research from our @ahrcpress funded @stayhomestories project.
Read it here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
Prof Katherine Brickell retweeted
More than half of borrowers now use credit cards just to pay for essentials.
With credit card interest rates around 20%, debt becomes a mechanism of redistribution: money flows from workers to banks simply so households can afford food, rent and utilities
open.substack.com/pub/graceb…
Prof Katherine Brickell retweeted
3-4 years postdoctoral positions in Sweden on broad areas of "environment" and "spatial planning" (urban and housing included). Deadline: March 4. formas.se/en/start-page/appl… #urban #sociology
Prof Katherine Brickell retweeted
The parliamentary launch of the report 'It's like torture' by @K_Brickell & @rosalie_warnock was a great success.
Lived experience is an essential part of driving the work of the APPG. We're grateful to the families and children who presented last night.
householdsintemporaryaccommo…
Prof Katherine Brickell retweeted
Yesterday, we hosted the launch of “It’s like torture: Life in TA for neurodivergent children and their families” with
@Sharedhealthgm .
Thanks to authors @K_Brickell & @rosalie_warnock, MPs @Siobhain_Mc & @Margaret4DR and all who attended.
sensorylivesproject.org/poli…
Prof Katherine Brickell retweeted
While politics continues to overshadow the policies of Starmer’s government…
MHCLG has just announced new funding for councils - totalling £5.6bn over three years
To be used to write off SEND-related deficits & give more help to “vulnerable ppl at risk of homelessness”
Prof Katherine Brickell retweeted
Labour's Rosena Allin-Khan, "There's a boys club in No 10 where they feel they can act with impunity, give advice, and it's not worked out well"
"People voted for change and all they've seen is"
"The winter fuel allowance car crash"
"The welfare bill"
"Not taking the stance on Gaza we would have liked to see"
"Keir Starmer needs to take a long hard look at who he surrounds himself with"
"Still working as an A&E doctor, shifts two days ago at the hospital I go into, seven kids to one mouldy bedroom"
"They need Labour to deliver on the promises that they made"
"Instead all they're seeing is more scandals"
Prof Katherine Brickell retweeted
📢We're hiring!📢
We have an open position for a Health Policy Implementation Lead!
Join our solution-focused team in raising awareness and bringing change for the experience of homeless families and children in temporary accommodation.
Apply now: sharedhealthfoundation.org.u…
Prof Katherine Brickell retweeted
For months I’ve had serious concerns about a hostel in Lambeth housing vulnerable adults and children, including women fleeing domestic violence. The conditions and behaviour of staff are beyond alarming. Today, I’ve written to the Leader of Lambeth Council, MP Helen Hayes, and Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips.
Kids and parents bitten by bedbugs, fire doors broken, random men entering at night, taking drugs and sleeping in their hallways.
⚠️ Government has got it wrong, scrapping flooring from the Decent Homes Standard.
💷 When a home comes without floors, it comes with debt – esp. for people after homelessness + domestic abuse.
Read more on my thoughts @insidehousing
insidehousing.co.uk/news/cha…
Prof Katherine Brickell retweeted
On this basis we would stop paying for free school meals for children and free bus passes for pensioners.
I don’t use it/don’t benefit is literally the direct opposite reason why we have taxation to fund pubic goods.
Education is a public good. Fund it!
2026: Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves, "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to"
2020: That time Labour leader Keir Starmer said he would scrap university tuition fees
Your reminder:
£20 billion is the cost of cancelling all student loans
£10 billion is the annual cost of abolishing tuition fees
£90 billion is the lost tax revenue because of Brexit
Labour trying to make Brexit work is making us poorer and unable to afford the things Labour once said they would do eg scrap university tuition fees
#RejoinEU cancel student debt, make education free because education lifts all of society
Prof Katherine Brickell retweeted
Tied with this, @ImpUrbanHealth has published guidance for families, legal professionals, local authorities, and other services that may be working with households in temporary accommodation with neurodivergent children.
See the guidance here: urbanhealth.org.uk/insights/….
Prof Katherine Brickell retweeted
Temporary Accommodation can be deeply unsafe for neurodivergent children, posing risks for their physical, psychological and emotional safety. As well as increasing safeguarding risk and sensory and environmental hazards.
Prof Katherine Brickell retweeted
‘It’s like torture: Life in Temporary Accommodation for Neurodivergent Children and their Families’, our new report written by @K_Brickell and @rosalie_warnock.
Exclusive from @JournoJess_
theguardian.com/society/2026…
householdsintemporaryaccommo…
“It’s like torture”: our new report reveals how Temporary Accommodation is harming neurodivergent children and families across the UK.
Read more today in The Guardian:
theguardian.com/society/2026…
