Homelessness

Hot off the set of the final series of BBC drama ‘Guilt’, co-stars and childhood friends Mark Bonnar and Jamie Sives returned to their hometown of Leith to support food charity FareShare’s summer appeal. FareShare, the UK’s largest charity fighting hunger and food waste, work

Centre for Homelessness Impact associate Michael Sanders talks about how the charity's Lifelong Links intervention shows the potential to reduce homelessness among young people in care.

The number of households stuck in temporary accommodation in England was at a record high between January and March this year, new figures from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities have shown.

Edith England, Neil Turnbull and Oliver Townsend are looking to create a network that seeks to reduce the high risk of homelessness among queer people.

Supporting children in care to build a positive network of adults they can rely on can reduce their risk of homelessness by 10%, a study suggests.

Efforts to reduce the number of households living in temporary accommodation will be backed by at least £60 million to support a national acquisition plan to increase the supply of social and affordable housing, the Scottish Government announced today. The funding will support councils and reg

King Tut's is one of five new Best Bar None Glasgow venues signing up to support vulnerable people involved in begging. The iconic live music venue has pledged to display QR codes on their premises which enable customers to donate to Street Change Glasgow.

Shelter Scotland is to bring the sustainable fashion community together to put the housing emergency out of fashion with its first Preloved Donation Pledge event in Glasgow.

A Tenants Support Fund of £500,000 is to be established to help East Ayrshire Council’s tenants facing the financial burden of the cost of living crisis. Agreed at a recent meeting of the council's cabinet, the fund will help to prevent homelessness by sustaining tenancies and will allev

The Prince of Wales visited Tillydrone Community Campus yesterday to launch Homewards – a programme that will demonstrate it is possible to end homelessness, making it rare, brief, and unrepeated.

The Centre for Homelessness Impact and The Orwell Foundation have announced Daniel Lavelle and Freya Marshall Payne as joint winners of the inaugural Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness.

Homelessness charity Cyrenians is to partner with the Women in Safe Homes fund to buy and refurbish properties to create safe homes for women who have experienced domestic abuse. The pioneering Women in Safe Homes fund was created in response to the need for safe, decent housing for women who are mo

Prince William is to unveil his vision to end the plight of hidden homelessness, pledging “a really big project” from his and the Princess of Wales’s Royal Foundation.

A fifth of young Scots experience such intense conflict at home that they think about leaving without somewhere to go at least once a month, a national survey has revealed.

Housing minister Paul McLennan has called on the UK Government to increase in local housing allowance rates (LHA) to avoid a surge in homelessness. Used to calculate Universal Credit payments for private tenants, LHA has been frozen in cash terms since 2020 and the freeze is due to continu