← Areas of work

Housing and Homelessness

We act on behalf of individuals and in collaboration with campaign groups, frontline organisations, and grassroots movements to challenge unlawful housing policies and practices. We support those most affected by housing injustice, using strategic legal action and legal education to hold local authorities to account and to bring about material change for marginalised communities.

Our legal expertise includes:

Gatekeeping practices 

Discriminatory housing allocation schemes

Statutory overcrowding assessments

Intentionality of homelessness

Temporary accommodation

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We also support grassroots groups and frontline organisations with:

  • Understanding principles of public law 
  • Workshops on rights and entitlements
  • Identifying unlawful practices and policies
  • Working collaboratively to develop litigation strategies
  • Addressing systemic housing injustice through strategic legal action
  • Supporting community-led campaigns