Homelessness

The City of Edinburgh Council will today consider plans to revise its five-year homelessness strategy to further strengthen support for people who need support.

Scotland’s Housing First Pathfinder has created more than 300 tenancies with an additional 50 added since April, a monitoring report released today has revealed.

A new strategy to tackle homelessness in South Lanarkshire has recorded significant successes in its first year.

Young people in Aberdeen are being urged to think about where they sleep as part of a new campaign by Aberdeen Cyrenians challenging the stigma and understanding of homelessness. The charity’s annual Sleep Out event is a vital part of its calendar, encouraging people to experience homelessness

Homeless Action Scotland CEO Gavin Yates reports back from the Homeless Prevention Strategy Group (HPSG) and warns that despite worrying homelessness statistics this year, potentially yet more bad news is on the horizon.

A new project conducted by the University of Dundee aims to tackle the surge in Scottish youth homelessness caused by COVID-19.  Dr Andrea Rodriguez, from the University’s School of Dentistry, said that improving access to support services, adopting participatory approaches, and integrati

A new partnership has paved the way for Port of Leith Housing Association (PoLHA) to lease a two-bedroom property to Steps to Hope, a charity which supports people experiencing homelessness and addiction. The lease will give Steps to Hope service users who, having achieved sobriety, are ready f

A Scottish Government decision to delay its own commitment to extend suitable accommodation laws to cover all homeless people is a “betrayal” of its promises, Shelter Scotland has said. Housing minister Kevin Stewart announced in May that the Unsuitable Accommodation Order, which pr

Ypeople CEO Janet Haugh discusses meeting the challenges of this year, and how the charity plans to keep the support of those who need it most as its priority. There’s a classic song from the Sixties called ‘You Don’t Miss Your Water (Till Your Well Runs Dry)’ which beautiful

More than 500 vulnerable residents have been supported by West Dunbartonshire Council’s homelessness and housing options team so far during the COVID-19 pandemic. The team, which continued to operate a 24/7 service throughout lockdown, increased the provision of accommodation by 40% to meet de

Ness Bank Church’s Inverness Foodstuff, which provides meals to those who are homeless, vulnerable or financially disadvantaged, has been recognised in the Scottish Parliament for its service to the community during the COVID-19 pandemic – serving over 10,000 meals locally.

Proposed funding cuts that will close five of Glasgow’s eight Citizens Advice Bureaux will cost communities millions of pounds, new analysis has revealed.

If you have worked in the housing sector for as long as Laurie Naumann has it is only a matter of time before your name becomes immortalised. His was last year, more than four decades after he joined Edinburgh Corporation to help revolutionise the way that city addressed homelessness, when the Fife-

Charities have called on ministers to “uphold their promises” to homeless people and continue the structural systems change required to end homelessness "at pace" after new statistics revealed the scale of the housing emergency at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis.

The number of people sleeping rough in England during the COVID-19 health crisis could be three to four times higher than official UK Government figures, according to a professor of urban studies at Heriot-Watt University.