It is clear how ethnic disparities within the labour market are linked to other disparities in policy such as housing, and influenced by national crises such as the cost of living crisis. Issues within the labour market leads to wage disparity between minoritised communities and their White counterparts.
The Telling Stories event on 22nd November 2022, was a powerful, social and introspective conversation about the art of storytelling. I know this because I was there. It asked critical questions that were extremely thought-provoking about how the UnMuseum project (as it stands today with this name) will tell stories. But it was also a general conversation for storytellers in all modes and forms, as well as an educational one.
The Bristol Living Rent Commission was created in 2022 to investigate how to make Bristol a “living rent city.” The report is an investigation into the private rental sector in Bristol and rent control measures, concluding with 29 recommendations including engaging the government on a national rent control system and devolving powers to the city-level to control rents. BSWN contributed written evidence on ethnic disparities within the private rental sector to the Commission.
Ethnic minorities account for around 14 percent of the UK population (ONS, 2011) and while all British ethnic minority groups have made progress in employment, occupational mix, labour force participation and education relative to the white majority, ethnic minorities still do less well than most white people in most socioeconomic areas.
