Homelessness

The Trident walk began along Birmingham's canals. Image credit: Trident Building Consultancy It’s not quite 500 miles, but Trident Building Consultancy is walking 150 miles to help end youth homelessness.

Kevin Stewart MSP (right) with Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham Housing minister Kevin Stewart on his time spent in Liverpool and Manchester last week.

Rough sleepers in Edinburgh are being handed portable mobile phone battery chargers to help ensure their phone is sufficiently powered up for what could be a lifesaving call to a support service. Edinburgh-based homelessness charity Streetwork has identified a relatively high level of mobile phone o

Lady Paton Lady Paton has granted permission for a petition to proceed for judicial review of a homelessness decision against the Glasgow City Integration Joint Board (GCIJB).

Shelter Scotland has unveiled an international line-up of comedians for this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe fundraiser – which is part of a series of events and activities being held to mark the housing and homelessness charity’s 50th anniversary. Among those ready to Stand Up For Shelter wi

A total of 45 different homeless charities throughout Scotland are to share £100,000 of funding thanks to a number of donations made by Social Bite. In order to decide which organisations to give to, the social enterprise held a series of focus groups in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee with

Monique Campbell looks back on last week when Shelter Scotland took to the streets to highlight Glasgow City Council’s failings to provide support to homeless people. Glasgow City Council’s own figures show that it unlawfully failed to offer temporary accommodation to homeless people 3,025 times

Refugees seeking safety in Britain are being left homeless and destitute due to continuing Home Office failures, a charity has warned. Refugee Action said it had to step in to prevent a woman, who was six-months pregnant, becoming street homeless after she waited more than three months for a respons

Ahead of yesterday’s protest by Shelter Scotland against the “shocking scale of unlawful activity” from Glasgow City Council in denying homeless people their rights, Adam Lang details the background and facts behind the demonstration. In Scotland we should be rightly proud of what is often ref

Shelter Scotland will today lead a protest against the “shocking scale of unlawful activity” from Glasgow City Council in denying homeless people their rights. Dozens of homelessness campaigners will stage a peaceful, public protest at the City Chambers at 11am aimed at raising awareness of the

Ewan Aitken In the first of a new monthly column exclusively for Scottish Housing News, Cyrenians CEO Ewan Aitken looks back over the charity’s 50 years in operation and charts its involvement in the Social Bite Village.

The Rock Trust, in partnership with Almond Housing Association, has been shortlisted for a community grant of up to £50,000 from the Nationwide Building Society.

Christine Macleod A report highlighting the importance of easy access to homelessness services information for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness has been published by the Scottish Housing Regulator.

A new hub is being created in Glasgow city centre to help homeless people access a number of services in the same location. The multi-agency facility will house a range of services for vulnerable adults with multiple complex needs based on the award-winning City Ambition Network (CAN).

A proposal to address homelessness in Glasgow by converting car parks into overnight homeless shelters is down to the final five entries for the UK in a global competition run by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Soran Shangapur from Iran, who entered the idea, explained that car