Cost of Living References

Executive Summary (p.3)

• 1 – Universal Credit: Anger as Therese Coffey tells claimants to ‘work extra hours’ to make up for £20 a week cutThe Independent, iNews

Bills Bills Bills (pp.4-7)

• 2 – UK unemployment falls to lowest level in nearly 50 years, Financial Times

• 3 – From pandemic to cost of living crisis: low-income families in challenging times, Joseph Rowntree Foundation

• 4 – £15+ billion unclaimed means-tested benefits – but the sketchy take-up data makes it hard to say for sure, entitledto

• 5 – Choir singing improves health, happiness – and is the perfect icebreaker, University of Oxford

• 6 – UK poverty: the facts, figures and effects, The Big Issue

• 7 – Inflation Nation: Putting Spring Statement 2022 in context, Resolution Foundation

• 8 – Basic income: Wales pilot offers £1,600 a month to care leavers, BBC News

• 9 – Petrol prices: Cost of filling family car to hit £100 for first time after biggest daily jump in 17 years, Independent

Data Story: The use of credit (p.8)

• 10 – One in 12 now using Buy Now Pay Later to cover essentials, Citizens Advice

• 11 – Falling behind to keep up: the credit safety net and problem debt, StepChange

• 12 – StepChange website

Data Story: The credit time bomb (p.9)

• 13 – Buy now, pay later: Warning over use of credit cards to cover payments, BBC News

• 14 – UK credit card debt is ballooning for all the wrong reasons, The Guardian

• 15 – “Ominous signs” as borrowing levels continue to rise, Money Advice Trust

Households are struggling (pp.10-13)

• 16 – Richest countries in the world 2022, World Population Review

• 17 – Poverty in the UK: statistics, UK Parliament

• 18 – TUC poll: 1 in 3 parents with pre-school children spend more than a third of their pay on childcare, TUC

• 19 – Women aren’t choosing to be stay-at-home mothers – they’re forced, The New Statesman

• 20 – UK parents missing out on ‘tax-free childcare’ scheme, data shows, The Guardian

• 21 –Child poverty overview, Public Health Scotland

• 22 – The costs of child poverty for individuals and society, Joseph Rowntree Foundation

• 23 – Cash aid to poor mothers increases brain activity in babies, study finds, The New York Times

• 24 – Community Life Survey 2020/21 – Volunteering and Charitable Giving, Gov.uk

Index (pp.14-15)

• 25 – Neighbourhoods & Communities report, Resident Voice Index™26

• 26 – Community Support & Life After Lockdown report, Resident Voice Index™

• 27 – Anxiety and panic attacks, Mind

• 28 – Survey results, Resident Voice Index™

Housing providers (pp.16-17)

• 29 – The bottom line: an investigation of rent arrears in social housing, Demos

• 30 – FlexMyRent website

• 31 – Poor insulation and food poverty: A risk to assets, achieving net-zero and resident wellbeing, MRI Software

• 32 – The English city using community energy to drive positive change, Positive.News

• 33 – Celebrating Pimlico District Heating Undertaking and seasonal switch on, City of Westminster

Health (pp.18-19)

• 34 – Cost of living crisis forces UK cancer patients to cut back on food and heating, The Guardian

• 35 – Health inequalities, The Health Foundation

• 36 – The state we’re in: Money and mental health in a time of crisis, Money and Mental Health Policy Institute

• 37 –Gym lockdown costing NHS £31m a month, Leisure Opportunities

Food (pp.20-21)

• 38 – Food banks provide more than 2.1 million food parcels to people across the UK in past year, according to new figures released by the Trussell Trust, Trussell Trust

• 39 – Food Insecurity Tracking, The Food Foundation

• 40 – Campaigner and writer Jack Monroe meets food bank users, BBC News

• 41 – “Nature Urbaine” – NU-Paris propose sa production aux particuliers, à la mairie du XVème, Agri-City

• 42 – The future of food: inside the world’s largest urban farm – built on a rooftop, The Guardian

• 43 – Allotments Act 1925, legislation.gov.uk

Agency (pp.22-23)

• 44 – Sikh welfare & awareness team (S.W.A.T.), One Kind Act

• 45 – Cost of living crisis: six creative ways communities are responding, Positive.News

• 46 – These States Now Require Students To Learn About Personal Finance, Forbes Advisor

Themes Tracker (p.24)

• 47 – Neighbourhoods & Communities report p.24, Resident Voice Index™

• 48 – Cleaner streets may be safer streets, The World Bank

• 49 – Neighbourhoods & Communities report p.14, Resident Voice Index™

Conclusion (p.25)

• 50 – Why is now the moment for social imagination?, Joseph Rowntree Foundation

MRI Foundation (p.26)

• 51 – MRI Software Foundation website