Homelessness

A Tenants Support Fund of £500,000 is to be established to help East Ayrshire Council’s tenants facing the financial burden of the cost of living crisis. Agreed at a recent meeting of the council's cabinet, the fund will help to prevent homelessness by sustaining tenancies and will allev

The Prince of Wales visited Tillydrone Community Campus yesterday to launch Homewards – a programme that will demonstrate it is possible to end homelessness, making it rare, brief, and unrepeated.

The Centre for Homelessness Impact and The Orwell Foundation have announced Daniel Lavelle and Freya Marshall Payne as joint winners of the inaugural Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness.

Homelessness charity Cyrenians is to partner with the Women in Safe Homes fund to buy and refurbish properties to create safe homes for women who have experienced domestic abuse. The pioneering Women in Safe Homes fund was created in response to the need for safe, decent housing for women who are mo

Prince William is to unveil his vision to end the plight of hidden homelessness, pledging “a really big project” from his and the Princess of Wales’s Royal Foundation.

A fifth of young Scots experience such intense conflict at home that they think about leaving without somewhere to go at least once a month, a national survey has revealed.

Housing minister Paul McLennan has called on the UK Government to increase in local housing allowance rates (LHA) to avoid a surge in homelessness. Used to calculate Universal Credit payments for private tenants, LHA has been frozen in cash terms since 2020 and the freeze is due to continu

Ensuring everyone in Scotland has access to adequate housing should be put at the centre of policy-making at every level of government, according to a new call from more than a dozen organisations working across housing, homelessness, local government and the legal sector.

Housing and homelessness charity Shelter Scotland will take to Holyrood today to call for urgent action to address Scotland’s chronic over-reliance on temporary accommodation.

To mark ten years of practice, the founders of Glasgow-based architecture studio HAUS Collective aims to raise £10,000 for homelessness charity, The Marie Trust, by taking on a sponsored 532-mile bike ride from Glasgow to Berlin. The route will take HAUS directors Jim Webster and Murray Hender

Strategic communication consultancy Aspect has selected Aberdeen Cyrenians as its first Charity of the Year in what is the charity’s 55th year supporting vulnerable people in north east Scotland. The innovative partnership will see Aberdeen Cyrenians benefit from Aspect’s expertise, crea

Cala Homes (West) has made a cash donation to a major Scottish-born charity to help with its efforts to end homelessness across the city. Following Cala’s first donation of £2,000 at the start of the pandemic, the West of Scotland region is gifting a further £3,000 to Social Bite,

Homelessness charity Cyrenians has appointed John Lawrie OBE as the new chair of its board. John was an investment manager for Scottish Provident and an Edinburgh City Councillor. He was awarded the OBE in 1990 and appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for the City of Edinburgh in 2012.

Glasgow City Mission has published a report on its Overnight Welcome Centre (OWC) which ran from 1 December 2022 until 31 March 2023.

The barriers that people with disabilities face getting support and exiting homelessness, including difficulty getting a diagnosis, unsuitable environments, and a shortage of accessible housing, have been highlighted in a new report by the Centre for Homelessness Impact.