Select committee: Women and Equalities Committee
Conclusion 6
1st Report - Black people’s experiences of homelessness
Published 15 Jul 2026
Addressed to Government Equalities Office
Women and Equalities Committee Black homelessness All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Conclusion (the committee's words)
The chronic shortage of social housing places enormous pressure on council staff to find appropriate housing for people who are often extremely vulnerable. They do crucial work in trying circumstances. However, official data suggests that decisions in the social housing system result in bias against Black people for a range of reasons and contributors to this inquiry highlighted shocking reports of explicitly racist behaviour by some housing officers. (Conclusion, Paragraph 59)
From: Women and Equalities Committee, 1st Report - Black people’s experiences of homelessness (HC 517), 15 July 2026
Government response
No government response linked yet: deadline 15 September 2026, 47 days ago.