By Kehinde Adeogun, Director of Legal Services and Policy at the Black Equity Organisation

The Black Equity Organisation is a Black-led civil rights charity that launched in 2022, as the UK’s first national, independent civil rights organisation. Our mission is to promote economic, legal, social and political equity for Black communities in Britain in order to ensure equal opportunity for progress and prosperity.

We commissioned the report Homes Lost, Lives Shattered, because it was evident to us that there had been little to no focus on the impact the Windrush scandal had on the housing situations of those caught up in it. The hostile environment policies that were started in 2014 meant that individuals were denied the right to work, denied the right to rent, denied access to DWP benefits and were as a result forced into homelessness and insecure housing situations through no fault of their own.

Read the full article from HQM here.