Black people in England four times as likely to face homelessness, study finds | Homelessness

According to the first major work on marriage and racism for more than twenty years, black people in the UK confront almost four times more homelessness and the likelihood of buying social housing is lower.

A three-year research project by academics at the University of Heriot-Watt found that a person affects the risk of homelessness even when controlling factors such as ethnicity, geography, poverty and hosting rates.

In order to access housing and other services, they recorded the evidence of the people who applied to change their names, accents and hair styles and that they were told to be grateful by the housing officers.

Prof Suzanne Fitzpatrick, the chief author of the report, said: “There are long -term structural disadvantages based on historical racism affecting homelessness risks. However, the data has really heard of excessive racism reports of today’s discrimination.”

The team from the Institute of Social Policy, Housing and Equality Studies of the university analyzed the results of 750,000 households from the official homelessness data from 2019-20 to 2021-22 and found that 10% of black families in the legal homeless system provided access to social houses compared to 24% of white families.

In addition, 11% of the immigrant -headed households have reached social housing compared to 17% of all households. Analysis of British housing survey data found that Pakistan-Bangladeshi households are seven times more and six times more than white houses.

The data obtained by the shelter through the demands of freedom of information are more likely to be trapped in black -headed households in temporary accommodation for a long time. They found that 43% of the black -headed households on TA have been there for more than two years than 25% of white -headed households. It has been there for more than five years compared to almost one -fifth (18%) of the black -headed households on TA and 8% of white -headed households.

Mairi Macrae, the campaign and policy director at the charity institution, said that inequality is “dependent on our housing system”.

He said: “Evidence is clear – destructively, black people are likely to have a higher and safe and safe home.

Shelter’s separate report speaks my color before me, describes people’s experiences of stereotypes, judicial and stamping, and faces an “irregular burden of evidence ile with excessive questioning and increasing examination while applying for social housing.

Black Social Housing applicants reported that they were more ill -treated than white applicants, faced longer delays and received culturally unaware support.

43 -year -old Uchenna Eneke, one of the 16 peer researchers of the report, lived 15 years for a social house in East London and lived in a single -bedroom apartment with their children and fought to get basic maintenance repairs or to talk to housing officers.

“It allows you to question everything – because I am a black? Is it because I am a woman? Because I am a single mother? “Especially with a name like mine. Sometimes I had to change my name to a name in English – I would call myself Gillian to talk to someone just.”

Now his 17 and 10 -year -old children spent most of his childhood sharing a room with his mother, and one of them developed chronic rhinitis due to a permanent mold at the facility.

“I tried to ask for help, but nothing happened. You are hiding yourself, you hold your head down, don’t take your children out. In the end I was a little annoying,” he said.

Currently voluntarily voluntarily with shelters and defenders. “We need laws to change because people are going crazy. People are losing their lives, losing their families, losing their jobs,” he said. “Imagine that someone is homeless, but at the same time is still a job. This is not normal.”

Fitzpatrick referred to the houses, especially after the Sewell report, which was widely condemned in 2021, “designed to fill a long -standing gap about race and homelessness in England.

Authorized, suggestions, the tenant’s rights invoice by the landlords to fight racism and housing departments to reject the blind approaches of ethnic origin in the specially rented industry host ombudsman includes the use of the use of the recommended ombudsman, he said.

“It is not really unacceptable for people who are already a crisis to traumate with the treatments of local authority homelessness officials who are already there to help them, Smeatradan he said. “If people enter a system with a structural disadvantage, you must be aware of it.”