Charity Wins Funding To Encourage Homeless People To Vote

A homelessness charity has won government funding to encourage social housing tenants and homeless people to vote. Homeless Link, partnered with the Hansard Society, will use the £39,053 pot to run events designed to help social tenants and people living in temporary accommodation to join the electoral roll and engage them in politics. It is part of a £4.2 million Cabinet Office ‘innovation fund’ to ensure everyone in Britain is signed up to the electoral register. The fund is shared with four other national organisations. Concerns have been raised that a change to voting regulations this April, where people will register individually to vote rather than as households, will make it harder for people to vote. Read more on Inside Housing.