Homelessness
Campaigners gift-wrap house to highlight rising number of homeless children
Housing campaigners gift-wrapped a full-size affordable home in a bid to raise awareness of the plight of homeless children in Scotland this Christmas.
Published 14 December 2015
Blog: Stats show over 65,000 in housing need
In 2014-15, over 65,000 different households in Scotland approached their local authority for help with housing, either through the housing options service (58,825 approaches) or the homelessness route (35,764 applications).
Published 14 December 2015
George Clooney launches video campaign to feed Scotland’s homeless on Christmas day
Social Bite, the not-for-profit Scottish sandwich shop chain which George Clooney visited last month, has launched a new fundraising campaign to feed thousands of homeless people on Christmas Day and throughout 2016 – with the help of the Hollywood icon and a host of other big-name backers.
Published 14 December 2015
Blog: Do sanctions really help homeless people find work?
At Crisis we know it is possible for homeless people to find and sustain meaningful employment, and in doing so to rebuild their lives. But new research we have published finds that the conditionality and sanctions regime instead makes it much harder for homeless people to find work.
Published 14 December 2015
Benefit sanctions ‘forcing people to sleep rough and go hungry’
Crisis is calling for reform of how benefit sanctions work for the most vulnerable as new research by the charity reveals how the regime is leaving people homeless, hungry and destitute and making it even harder for them to find work.
Published 11 December 2015
Blog: New research shows emerging threats to Scotland’s progress on homelessness
The Scottish Government blazed a trail in tackling homelessness, but there is no room for complacency, writes Jon Sparkes, chief executive at Crisis.
Published 9 December 2015
Fears for Scotland’s future success in tackling homelessness
Scotland’s ambitions to tackle homelessness are under threat according to a new report published today by national homelessness charity Crisis and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Published 8 December 2015
Designer jackets worth £13,000 donated to Shelter Scotland
Housing and homelessness charity Shelter Scotland has spoken of its shock as a top fashion brand donated stock worth £13,000.
Published 7 December 2015
Knitting Queen brings community together to help homeless
A charity shop volunteer from Prestwick who knitted almost 700 blankets to raise money to help homeless and badly housed people is urging local people to get involved with a community knitting project.
Published 4 December 2015
England: Bagpipes used to deter homeless people from sleeping at bus station
An English local authority has come under fire for blaring bagpipe music during the night in a bid to deter homeless people from sleeping rough at a railway and bus station.
Published 3 December 2015
Christmas Carols for homelessness charity Crisis
National homelessness charity Crisis will be holding its annual carol service in Edinburgh on Tuesday 8 December at Canongate Kirk.
Published 3 December 2015
Greens call for empty homes to be used to aid homelessness
Patrick Harvie, MSP and co-convenor of the Scottish Greens, has called on the Scottish Government and local authorities to use all their powers to ease Scotland's housing and homelessness crises by putting empty properties back in use.
Published 2 December 2015
Gok Wan joins ‘Slippers for Shelter’ campaign
Celebrity Gok Wan has called on members of the public to ‘get yer baffies oot’ in a bid to raise money for Shelter Scotland to help homeless and badly housed children and their families.
Published 30 November 2015
Preventative approach to homelessness bears fruit in Dundee
The number of homeless people in Dundee has fallen by almost half in the past six years, thanks to a massive drive to keep people in their own homes.
Published 26 November 2015
Wear your slippers to work to help homeless children this Christmas
Shelter is calling on the British public to take part a slippers campaign in an effort to help the 100,000 children in Britain who will wake up homeless this Christmas.
Published 25 November 2015
