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BMENational Statement on the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities Report
Our overall feeling on reading the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (or Sewell) Report is of disappointment and disbelief. The report is at heart incoherent and inconsistent. Disappointment that it views racism through a particular political lens, and disappointment…
Read MoreHousing Rights Newsletter
How new immigration rules affect housing and benefits The first newsletter of 2021 from the CIH and BMENational focuses on the immigration rule changes and how they affect housing and benefits, especially for European nationals in the UK. In the meantime, the…
Read MoreBMENational Statement on Charter Flight Deportations
We note with dismay the plans by the Home Office to continue with mass deportations to Jamaica. With a continuing health emergency caused by the Covid-19 pandemic we believe that lives are at risk, as the UK government are prepared…
Read MoreWe Must Be Bold and Seize The Opportunity
A call to action from Khalid Mair of the Imani Housing Co-operative You may be familiar with this story, or not so, but let me tell it anyway, over 30 years ago what are now framed as urban race riots…
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