Homelessness

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Homelessness prevention charity Cyrenians is seeking £500,000 from businesses to support its work in Edinburgh as it marks its 50th anniversary year of helping rough sleepers. The campaign is being supported by Essential Edinburgh, the Business Improvement District (BID) for Edinburgh City Centre,

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The judges for a competition which seeks ideas to help tackle homelessness in Glasgow have been announced. Organised by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the ‘Cities for our Future’ competition aims to find innovative and practical ideas that can help solve problems in our rap

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Social enterprise Social Bite has officially launched its village in Edinburgh which aims to tackle homelessness by providing a safe living environment for around 20 people per year. Developed on vacant land in Granton, the Social Bite Village is made up of 11 two-bedroom nest houses intended to pro

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Moving all homeless people out of unsuitable temporary accommodation after seven days could save Scottish councils £29 million this year alone, according to new research by Crisis. Undertaken by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the research has estimated that £29m in public funds would be saved this year i

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The general Scottish public has a better understanding of the causes of homelessness than it did over ten years ago and that there is greater empathy towards people who are homeless, according to new research. The shift in attitudes towards homelessness was revealed in a study by charity Street Socc

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Glasgow City Council has paid out more than £1.6 million to private landlords for providing temporary homeless accommodation over the last five years, according to new figures. Details obtained by the Evening Times obtained via a Freedom of Information request revealed that private landlords in the

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Proposals have been unveiled to build a football-themed self management and personal development centre for people experiencing homelessness in Edinburgh. The brainchild of Street Soccer Scotland founder David Duke, the Change Centre could see 32 en-suite bedrooms, living facilities and a community

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(from left) Bob Gould, Robertson Civil Engineering; Tony Fry, MD of Robertson Civil Engineering; Josh Littlejohn, Social Bite and Ron Bathgate, Robertson Civil Engineering Robertson Group has underlined its commitment to tackling societal issues after completing work at the Social Bite Village in Ed

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The Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy Homeless people attending A&E at a Fife hospital are to be given specialist housing advice as part of a ground-breaking service delivered by Shelter Scotland and Fife Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP).

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The UK’s first vending machine which gave out free food and clothes to homeless people has been removed following a trial. Launched in Nottingham last November by charity Action Hunger, the machine stocked items such as fruit, socks and toothpaste.

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Councillors in Fife have discussed moves to protect some of the council’s most vulnerable tenants. At a meeting of the community and housing services committee last week councillors heard about progress on work to reduce the number of children housed in temporary accommodation and how best to prot

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