A Torn Safety Net: - How the cost of living crisis threatens its own last line of defence

39 A Torn Safety Net the Jewish community in Cornwall spoke powerfully about how the lack of children and young families, attributed directly to the local housing market, was something that would negatively impact their collective ability to practise some of the rituals and festivals of the Jewish faith, for which children are a key part: “One of the central lessons that we’re given in the Torah i. [...] While used somewhat interchangeably depending on the translation of the Bible, the idea of the “sojourner” in particular conveys the instability of living temporarily in a place that is not your own. [...] While it is too soon to know for certain whether this will be the case with the current crisis, the idea of a social recession is a helpful way of viewing the effects on the charitable sector of both the pandemic and current economic crisis. [...] A lot of charitable trusts over-committed in the first year and are now having to withdraw.” (Community development worker, Wolverhampton, February 2022) 60 A social recession The language of “rebuilding” in this conversation suggests the belief – shared by some of our earlier interviewees – that as the pandemic receded, the time was ripe for reconstructing and renewing some of the social infrastr. [...] 66 A social recession The impact of rising fuel costs The rising price of petrol was one of the first indicators of inflation, noticeable in everyday life even before the scale of the energy crisis was evident.