I-SPHERE’s Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick and Dr Beth Watts, with Professor Hal Pawson of University of New South Wales, argue in their new paper that localism, alongside austerity and welfare reform, has played a key role in driving up homelessness in England.

Read the Blog Localism and homelessness: a decade of disaster in England published by the London School of Economics and Political Science, in which they state

” It should not have taken a global pandemic to expose the lunacy of ‘localist’ approaches to meeting the fundamental material needs of vulnerable people, nor to have rough sleeping recognised as the national public health emergency that it has always been“.

You can join in on the debate on twitter and  find the full paper published in Policy and Politics here