The Crisis and Resilience Fund has replaced Discretionary Housing Payments. What does that mean for housing and homelessness?

Comment30.04.26by Rhiannon Sims

While the Crisis and Resilience Fund includes some welcome changes, it is hard to see it as a game-changer in homelessness prevention and responses to housing precarity, writes Rhiannon Sims, research associate at Heriot-Watt University

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