UBI in the European Union: Online Event 31st January 2024
To view the event online, click here.
Reports on the Austin, Texas, Guaranteed Income Pilot now available
The Urban Institute just published its 12-month findings for the Austin Guaranteed Income Pilot, plus a policy recommendations memo for the Austin City Council, which is seeking to understand how direct cash can assist in addressing the city’s housing affordability and homelessness crisis. The memo was produced in collaboration with the Jain Family Institute. See the top three publications on the Urban Institute’s project page for the Austin evaluation.
Register Now for the 2024 BIEN Congress in Bath, UK
The 2024 BIEN Congress is being held in Bath, UK, from 29-31 August. You can now register at the conference website.
Tackling Homelessness with Unconditional Cash Transfers: 22 February 2024
“Despite the valiant efforts of many individuals and organisations, the rate of homelessness in Greater Manchester is still increasing.
A study by Shelter published in January 2023 stated that the three local authorities with the worst homelessness rate in the North West were all within Greater Manchester: Manchester, Salford and Oldham. Both the total number of homeless people and the rate of homelessness in Manchester have been steadily increasing over the last five years, according to Shelter’s annual reports – despite homelessness prevention schemes by local authorities like Manchester City Council.
So what is to be done? Are there any radical ideas we could try to turn this tanker around?“
To learn more about this online event including the speakers and link to register, click here.
UBI FOR FARMERS: CAMPAIGN LAUNCH, REPORT INSIGHTS AND DISCUSSION
When: Friday 5th January 2024, 14:00 – 15:30
Where: Oxford Real Farming Conference 2024, Blue Boar House, INTER-VARSITY ROOM
Facilitators: Hamish Evans, Dot Tiwari, Jake Richardson & Kathleen Pollitt
Speaker: Guy Standing
“From labourers to landowners, livelihoods in agriculture are often precarious. A lack of funded pathways into farming makes careers in producing food both hard to access and difficult to sustain. Finding ways to support these livelihoods will be critical to building the resilient, sustainable and just local food systems we need. This is an interactive workshop as well as the launch of the campaign, with initial insights from a year of hosting conversations with farmers around the UK. BI4FARMERS is a campaign created by a fresh working group of growers, farmworkers, farmers, academics and union co-ordinators. The aim of the campaign is to encourage farmers and food producers to discuss possible solutions to the financial barriers they face.”
BIEN Congresses
The 24th BIEN CONGRESS in Maricá & Niterói – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 27-29 August 2025
Linkedin, Instagram, X – biencongress25 (at) gmail [dot] com
BIEN2024 was August 29–31 (Pictures and more coming soon)