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d Strategic Communications Project Manager at Crisis, leading the Crisis Framing Homelessness Project Your microphones and cameras will be switched off during the session. If you’d like to ask a question, please post in the Q&A box as we go through. The session today is being recorded.

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• Our most effective values and metaphors for reframing homelessness

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The he FrameW meWorks rks Ins nstitut titute e research arch looked d at: t: #1 Sector view; sector materials; media stories; public thinking #2 Tested frames to shift public thinking towards the sector view and to build commitment to end homelessness 10,000 members of UK public

What’s the one thing you want people to know about homelessness? Do you feel heard? What might be getting in the way of people hearing your message?

Wha hat t is ho homelessn essness ess: : A lack of affordable, safe, secure accommodation - the lack of a home. Homele less ssnes ness s can n be: Hidden (sofa surfing) or visible (rough sleeping), it can be short or long term. Some e groups s are more e at t risk k th than n oth thers rs: Young people, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Ethnic people, LGBT people, people with disabilities, and people leaving care or prison are all at prison are all at higher risk.

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Sys yste tems ms causes: s: Poverty is one of the biggest drivers of homelessness. Unaffordable rents, a lack of social housing, a lack of adequate welfare support for people at risk. Violence and

• trauma. Mental health and physical health. Relationships breaking down.

Soci ciet etal al co cons nsequen uences: ces: Homelessness doesn’t just affect an individual or the people immediately around them, it has wider negative effects on communities, services, the economy, society. En Ending ng ho homeles lessnes sness s is possible

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ystems tems are designed gned: If we make the right policy choices it is possible to stop homelessness from happening. Affordable housing; housing first and first and housing led; adequate welfare; secure work.

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Practice is fuelling a ‘belief gap’

48% 48% of news stories about rough sleeping, 11% sofa surfing 35% 35% of sector materials on rough sleeping, 14% sofa surfing Only 20% 20% of media materials and 25% 25%

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as complete ‘systems’ stories 69% 69% of sector materials and 75% 75% of media materials didn’t give any societal level consequences

We can change the way we fr fram ame e homelessness to build public support and political commitment for action and change

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Values Metaphor

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In our society, we believe in treating everybody with dignity and humanity and upholding everyone’s basic human rights. All of us, as human beings, have a moral right to decent housing, yet right now, many people in our country are homeless. Treating all people with dignity and humanity means making sure everyone can afford a safe and stable home. Watch out:

• not a ‘legal right’
• avoid ‘deserves’

Int nter erde dependen pendence ce

In our society, what affects one of us affects all of us. When some people are struggling, it hurts everyone. Right now, many people in our country are homeless, and this affects us all. Making sure everybody has safe, stable housing benefits us all by creating a stronger society.

Using the moral human rights value

‘Behind these statistics are human beings, who like all of us, had talents and ambitions’

Interdependence framing

Poverty puts constant pressure on people. If the pressure builds up, people can be pushed into homelessness. This pressure comes from high housing costs, low wages and inadequate government support, which can build up to a breaking point. A sudden increase in pressure from a life event – like losing a job, a relationship breakdown or a health crisis – can quickly become unbearable and force people into homelessness.

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Framing and coronavirus: constant pressure

Jon n Spark rkes es, , Chi hief Ex Executiv tive e of Cris isis is, , said “As it currently stands, the future for renters in this country is inc ncredi dibl bly y precari arious s – with mount ntin ing g fina nanc ncia ial l pressure sure and nd job ins nsecurit urity y caused by the pandemic leaving many struggling to pay rent. “The temporary ban on evictions has made a big difference in protecting tenants, but as this is currently set to lift at the end of August many people could still be forced ced int nto ho homele less ssnes ness s during this ongoing public health emergency.”

under strain

And in personal stories…

weighed down I couldn’t breathe I felt suffocated Couldn’t take it anymore I needed help to ease the pressure Lifted a weight from my shoulders

World Homelessness Day 2019

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Sector story Why we frame Framing with values Framing with metaphors Recap Hosting a follow-up Q&A webinar with The FrameWorks Institute this autumn

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