With the charity Shelter recently estimating that around 320,000 people across Great Britain were homeless at the start of 2018, addressing the underlying causes is high on the agenda. A climate of social spending cuts, rising rents and insecure work, are all contributing factors which haven’t gone unnoticed. In fact, a recent UN report declared that the UK government had inflicted a ‘great misery’ on its people with ‘punitive, mean spirited and often callous’ austerity policies.

We're joined by Dr Victoria Cooper and Dr Daniel McCulloch, both Lecturers in Criminology at the Open University, to share some of the latest thinking around homelessness and the impact of austerity.

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