Meeting for Sufferings: Creativity in housing solutions

Jenny Brierley spoke to the annual report of the Quaker Housing Trust

by George Osgerby 10th February 2017

‘Five households in Britain become homeless every hour,’ Jenny Brierley, clerk of the Quaker Housing Trust (QHT), told Meeting for Sufferings.

Speaking to QHT’s Third Triennial Report she said that Britain’s housing crisis is getting worse. Those on the lowest incomes are invariably the hardest hit and accommodation for asylum seekers is often of ‘an appalling standard’.