Homelessness

Barrat Homes East Scotland has raised £22,000 for homelessness charity Rock Trust by holding its fifth annual corporate golf day.

Dundee City Council has prepared its Local Housing Strategy (LHS) for the next 5 years, covering 2019-2024.

Glasgow City Council and the Scottish Refugee Council (SRC) hosted an event on the impact of homelessness on refugees yesterday.

A blank wall on a Perth homeless hostel, which is leased from Hillcrest Enterprises, has become the canvas for the city’s latest mural.

Academics are to investigate the impact of the alcohol minimum unit pricing law on homeless drinkers. The research is being led by experts from Glasgow Caledonian University’s substance use and misuse research group.

The Scottish Government will provide social landlords with £1.5 million to allow them to work with families and protect them from homelessness.

Barratt Homes East Scotland has raised over £80,000 for homelessness charity Rock Trust at its inaugural charity dinner. Rock Trust was chosen at the start of 2019 as Barratt Homes East Scotland's charity of the year. The organisation has been fundraising in aid of them over the last year and

Homeless charity Aberdeen Cyrenians has teamed up with Aberdeen's Union Square to host Sleepout 2019 in the shopping centre's multi-storey car park.

One in four households in England who are homeless or under the threat of homelessness in 2018 were in paid employment at the time, an Observer study of government figures has found.

East Lothian Council has expressed concern that changing legislation and a gap in funding could hamper its efforts to tackle homelessness.

Social landlords are to receive a share of £1.5 million of support to prevent homelessness for low-income families. The funding is part of a multi-million pound package of measures from the Scottish Government to improve access to learning, advice and employment support for low-income families

Sellers of The Big Issue across the UK will now have access to cashless technology in a bid to boost sales.

The Scottish Government is to extend a seven-day limit on unsuitable temporary accommodation to protect people at risk of homelessness.

Shelter Scotland’s crowdfunding campaign to raise money to help meet the legal costs for taking Glasgow City Council to court has hit its initial £15,000 target within two weeks.

The Scottish Government has made £4.5 million available to innovate and transform services to support the implementation of plans to help end homelessness in its Programme for Government 2019-20.