{"id":378,"date":"2019-10-14T11:56:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T10:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/sogesresearch\/?p=378"},"modified":"2019-10-15T13:43:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T12:43:29","slug":"housing-benefit-and-age-discrimination-young-women-living-in-shared-accommodation-in-the-private-rental-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/sogesresearch\/2019\/10\/14\/housing-benefit-and-age-discrimination-young-women-living-in-shared-accommodation-in-the-private-rental-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing benefit and age discrimination: Young women living in shared accommodation in the private rental sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Dr Eleanor Wilkinson and Dr<em>&nbsp;Iliana Ortega<\/em>&#8211;<em>Alc\u00e1zar<\/em>&nbsp;ran a policy event at the House of Commons, to launch their new report,&nbsp;<em>Housing benefit and age discrimination: Young women living in shared accommodation in the private rental sector. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youngwomenstrust.org\/housing_benefit_age_discrimination\">https:\/\/www.youngwomenstrust.org\/housing_benefit_age_discrimination<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/sogesresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2019\/10\/Picture1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-376\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/sogesresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2019\/10\/Picture1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"232\"><\/a>The report is based on ESRC funded research, and was produced in collaboration with the Young Women\u2019s Trust [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youngwomenstrust.org\/\">https:\/\/www.youngwomenstrust.org\/<\/a>], a charity that supports young women (aged 18-30) who are living on low incomes. The report outlines how housing welfare reform has led to a lack of safe and secure housing for young vulnerable women. The event was hosted by Labour MP Siobhain&nbsp;McDonagh, and included speakers from two leading homelessness organizations, Crisis and Centrepoint. The findings from the report generated wide media interest, and was covered in <em>The Telegraph<\/em>and the <em>Huffington Post<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Wilkinson will be speaking at another policy event hosted by the Young Women\u2019s Trust this October in London titled \u2018Solving the Crisis in Young Women&#8217;s Housing\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/solving-the-crisis-in-young-womens-housing-registration-73108580733\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/solving-the-crisis-in-young-womens-housing-registration-73108580733<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/sogesresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2019\/10\/Picture2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-377 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/sogesresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2019\/10\/Picture2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/sogesresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2019\/10\/Picture2-1.jpg 303w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/sogesresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2019\/10\/Picture2-1-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Dr Eleanor Wilkinson and Dr&nbsp;Iliana Ortega&#8211;Alc\u00e1zar&nbsp;ran a policy event at the House of Commons, to launch their new report,&nbsp;Housing benefit and age discrimination: Young women living in shared accommodation in the private rental sector. https:\/\/www.youngwomenstrust.org\/housing_benefit_age_discrimination The report is based on ESRC funded research, and was produced in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phew","tag-autumn-2019"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/sogesresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/332\/2019\/10\/Picture2-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/sogesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/sogesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/sogesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/sogesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/sogesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/sogesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/sogesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/sogesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/sogesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/sogesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/sogesresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}