Over the past few months, Brick has kept its focus on what often gets pushed to the margins—lived experience, voice, and the power of storytelling. These tools have the ability to reshape housing.
Our refreshed project page brings together key insights from our advisory group. It also showcases a growing collection of animations that carry these stories forward. The first in this series focuses on young Black people experiencing homelessness in the United Kingdom. It centres voices often absent from the conversation, yet closest to the realities shaping it.
We’ve also launched our first video podcast featuring Lennina Ofori, a member of our advisory group. The conversation doesn’t sit on the surface — it asks what it would actually take to address racial discrimination in housing, not rhetorically, but in practice. You can find out more about Lennina’s work here: https://www.lenninaofori.co.uk.
If you missed it, you can also rewatch our project launch and revisit the foundations on which this work is built.
Alongside this, we now have a housing support offer in place — part of our commitment to ensure this work is not only heard, but felt in the systems people are navigating.
And we’re not done yet.
More animations are on the way — continuing to shift the narrative from statistics to stories, and from response to resolve. Because housing systems don’t change through data alone — they change when the voices of those most impacted are not only heard, but taken seriously.
You can explore the updated project page here: https://www.rota.org.uk/our-work/current-projects/brick-by-brick-housing-project/
Written by Michaela Queensborough