I’m the lead author of a recent report, commissioned by Vibrant Communities Calgary, looking at factors associated with social disorder on public transit (including social disorder involving people experiencing homelessness). Here’s a ‘top 10’ overview of the report: https://nickfalvo.ca/report-finds-insufficient-daytime-options-for-people-experiencing-homelessness/
Austerity
Concern is growing over a Conservative-led council's opaque plans to privatise Cornwall Newquay Airport. It’s part of a bigger picture across England
Amid a Labour rebellion over the two-child welfare cap, new figures reveal the number of families still hit by the Coalition Government-era housing policy
Labour has won the 2024 General Election. Let's take a look back at the multiple crises successive Conservative administrations worsened, created or ignored
The Labour leader's refusal to commit to scrapping George Osborne's austerity-era policy risks committing hundreds of thousands more children into poverty
Both party leaders are promising to slash immigration numbers without being honest about the big costs it will inevitably bring to our economy and public services
Government plans to target welfare payments to the long-term sick and disabled are deeply unpopular, an exclusive new poll suggests
The Prime Minister's announcements on sickness and disability benefits were not just another assault on an already punitive welfare system – they were nuclear-level gaslighting, writes Mary O'Hara
The Prime Minister has gathered huge plaudits from supportive newspapers for his pledge to increase defence spending, while using numbers that simply don't add up
A new Parliamentary report reveals a catalogue of 'broken promises and wasted cash' which will cost hundreds of billions of pounds for the Government's successors to fix