Library : Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Helping housing associations help refugees and new migrants - Chartered Institute of Housing, August 2007 HACT and the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) have published resources to enable housing associations to meet the housing and support needs of refugees and new migrants. The resources include a series of ten training modules with information on legal issues, partnership working, integration and new migrants. The modules include facts about the housing rights of new migrants and refugees, and recommendations about the importance of incorporating their needs into housing strategies. There is also a four-part literature review of recent studies and reports about national and local programmes and projects working with new migrants. Housing and support services for asylum seekers and refugees: a good practice guide This guide from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation will help housing professionals face the challenge of meeting the housing and related needs of asylum seekers and refugees. The guide aims to show how safe and secure housing can be provided, and how it can be the crucial link in helping people establish themselves in communities where they want to live and where other people accept them. Good housing services can be the basis for the wide support which new migrants are likely to need and housing professionals are well-placed to establish partnerships with other organisations which can provide it.