week 5: accommodation and housing

Essay questions:

to what extent does reducing homelessness after prison reduce reoffending/ enhance desistance

to what extent does social housing enhance desistance/ reduce reoffending

To what extent does stable accommodation reduce reoffending

Present at three key time points:

• upon imprisonment

  • loss of property entering prison

• near release

  • loss of landlord contact,

• once released

  • accumulating debt, challenging housing landscape, benefit/ welfare problem, lack of accommodation advice, private rented sector issues,

  • limited social housing, stigma

• purposeful activity set within the approved premises such as gardening

• very minimal are privately run

• these are options available to everybody, not just in prison

• NFA

  • not having a stable address means you reach the criteria for NFA

• contextual factors that might also influence where the person lives and their probability of reoffending

• emphasising that the type of accommodation a person lives in really influences and effects the probability of reoffending