Tag Archives: Jad Adams

Charity chief: house-hunters and homeless ‘united in misery’

Posted on July 5, 2018 by

Croydon’s leading homelessness charity is fiercely critical of the failure to provide any truly affordable housing, reports BARRATT HOLMES People without homes and people priced out of the housing market are both suffering from the same social problem and are … Continue reading →

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Homelessness charity chair calls for end to ‘no-fault’ evictions

Posted on June 15, 2018 by

With Croydon Council’s ‘campaign’ against street begging in the town centre on-going, EBONY GORDON spoke to Jad Adams, the long-standing chair of the borough’s homelessness charity, Nightwatch Every night in Queen’s Gardens, a group of trained volunteers assist scores of … Continue reading →

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Volunteers mourn John Taylor, co-founder of two charities

Posted on March 7, 2018 by

Volunteers across Croydon are mourning John Taylor, one of the founders of two homelessness organisations in the borough, who has died, aged 75. In 1976, Taylor helped to found Croydon Nightwatch, which offers nightly food and help to the homeless. … Continue reading →

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Dispossession: film club stages debate over housing crisis

Posted on November 15, 2017 by

For some people, a housing crisis means not getting planning permission for a loft conversion. For others it means, quite simply, losing their home. Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle is a feature documentary which is being shown by Stanley’s … Continue reading →

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‘Ideological’ housing White Paper could add to homelessness

Posted on February 28, 2017 by

The head of a Croydon homelessness charity has today roundly criticised the government’s White Paper on housing for being too reliant on property developers, for “a preoccupation with ownership at all costs”, and for the “ideological imposition” of Tory right-to-buy … Continue reading →

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The housing market works, just not in providing homes

Posted on February 28, 2017 by

CROYDON COMMENTARY: The government’s housing White Paper was published this month. JAD ADAMS, pictured right, the chair of the borough’s largest homelessness charity, Nightwatch, suggests it does nothing to address the underlining problems Fixing Our Broken Housing Market, just released … Continue reading →

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Nightwatch chairman Adams given lifetime service award

Posted on October 13, 2016 by

Jad Adams, the chair of homelessness charity Croydon Nightwatch, has been honoured with the lifetime service award at the Mayor of Croydon’s Civic Awards. Adams has been volunteering with Nightwatch since 1979, and has been its chairman since 1992. This … Continue reading →

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