This study investigates the racial housing wealth gap in the UK and reveals enduring inequalities experienced amongst racialised minorities in the UK in accessing homeownership, securing mortgage ...

Climate justice is one of our new social investment themes. We’re looking to invest into funds supporting community renewable energy projects. The reference to planet in JRF’s mission was added in ...

This literature review was commissioned by JRF and carried out by researchers at the London School of Economics. It compiles and analyses evidence on the relationship between ethnicity, racism and ...

New evidence from JRF shows there has been no let-up for low-income families over the last year, with millions of households ...

Progress on tackling child poverty in Northern Ireland has stalled and focusing on work alone will not shift the dial on child poverty. It is time to invest in a better future for children.

Building connections, through convening organisations with both tech and social/environmental missions, is seen as beneficial. Such collaborations could set agendas outside the commercial influence of ...

Poverty stigma exacerbates shamefully high rates of poverty in the UK. It can affect health as much as trying to survive on a low income. How do we combat it?

This year’s State of the Nation report looks in detail at whether work is working for people in Scotland. The headline poverty statistics in Scotland are reasonably easy to remember, partly because ...

Key points 2022 had the greatest fall in the value of the basic rate of unemployment benefits since the start of annual uprating in 1972, fifty years ago. In eight of the ten April upratings between ...

Inequalities Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities face in accessing affordable and secure homes are rooted in structural injustices that are just not right, and must change. During the ...

This report looks at 3 scenarios where buying private homes for social ownership can play a role in shaping the housing market and growing new, more equitable housing models.