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- January 10, 2020
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH Some UK coverage about furniture poverty and the rise of the crisis behind closed doors. Without [furniture banks] high-cost rent-to-own lenders can be very tempting, despite interest rates of up to 94%....
- January 10, 2020
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH Lyndsey Latarche is the founder and director of All Small Things. All Small Things (AST), an online retailer was created to offer an alternative buying option for families and individuals on low-incomes. AST...
- January 10, 2020
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH This article presents a case study that explores the creation of value by a social enterprise, Furniture Bank, for its stakeholders. The study is undertaken using the social return on investment framework....
- January 10, 2020
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH This paper, jointly produced by EndFurniturePoverty.Org and the Human City Institute, is a first step in EndFurniturePoverty.Org’s Furnishing Homes, Furnishing Lives campaign to promote furnished tenancies in the social housing sector. The paper...
- January 10, 2020
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH This study examined the types of housing features considered important to a sample of homeless persons diagnosed with a mental illness and/or substance use disorder and the relationship between the degree to...
- January 10, 2020
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH Permanent supportive housing provides safe, stable housing for people with mental and substance use disorders who are homeless or disabled. This article describes permanent supportive housing and reviews research. Key elements of...
- January 10, 2020
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH One of the best and only longitudinal studies that illustrates the impact of good furnishing support services through a furniture bank. There are now 3.8 million households in the UK living in...
- January 10, 2020
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH The book also presents eight case studies of Housing First in Canada, exploring not just the results of its implementation, but how different communities made the shift from ‘treatment as usual’ to...
- January 10, 2020
Carbon Calculator (Spain) In Spain there is a social and environmental organization looking at the opportunities and benefits of reuse in the country. To help quantify the carbon impact they provided a handy calculator. Calculate...
- January 10, 2020
SUMMARY OF RESEARCH Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is being promoted as a key market based instrument to help Member States implement EU waste legislation, including application of the waste hierarchy. However, little attention has been...
