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- Trauma-informed design
- UK
- affordable homes
- affordable housing
- blog
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- challenge
- change
- children
- climate smart cities challenge
- collective leadership
- culture
- doughnut economics
- economy
- elim housing
- health
- homeless
- homelessness
- housing
- housing association
- housing crisis
- housing first
- impact
- inclusive
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- industry
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Date
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- December 2021
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Why are we in a TA Crisis?
If you have visited IKEA lately, you may have seen the recently launched ‘Real Life Roomsets’, designed to reveal the reality of those living in Temporary Accommodation (TA). These, coupled with Shelter’s latest report ‘Still Living in Limbo’ have brought the harsh realities of TA into the spotlight, but how did we get here, and what’s the solution?

