Shelter Scotland

Lisa Glass On Thursday 16th March, the Scottish Government released two sets of poverty statistics, on how many people live in poverty and on how many people live in ‘persistent poverty’, in other words, have been in poverty for three of the last four years.

Alison Watson A new National Homelessness Strategy for Scotland, which is informed and designed with input from people with lived experience of homelessness, is the only way the root causes of homelessness can be tackled, a conference will hear today.

With 14% of all households in Scotland now calling the private rented sector home compared with just 5% back in 1999, more people than ever are looking to the private rented sector for long-term housing solutions either through choice or necessity. This growth has led to a more diverse tenant base a

Shelter Scotland has called for a “step change” in the provision of affordable homes in Scotland after new figures found that more than a quarter of children were living in relative poverty after housing costs in 2015-2016. Statistics published yesterday by the Scottish Government show that 260

Housing and homelessness charity Shelter Scotland has welcomed calls from the chief inspector of prisons for more help for inmates during transition and highlighted the important role that safe and affordable housing can play. David Strang said that greater work is needed to address the challenges f

Nicola Barclay Housebuilders have called for the Scottish Government to adopt an all tenure approach to housing delivery after new figures revealed a fall in the number of new homes getting underway.

On a quiet Friday afternoon, the DWP laid draft regulations to end automatic entitlement to housing benefit for 18-21 year olds. Worryingly, these regulations are due to be implemented incredibly swiftly and will be in force from the beginning of April 2017, less than a month after the initial layin

Jeane Freeman Almost £58 million will be spent mitigating the impact of the UK government’s welfare reform on households across Scotland, it has been announced, as Westminster vows to press on with plans for further cuts to housing benefit.

Ewan Aitken Ewan Aitken of homelessness charity Cyrenians blogs ahead of Shelter Scotland’s Homelessness Conference 2017

Shelter Scotland’s Nora Uhrig encourages tenants to respond to the Scottish Government’s consultation into its proposed private rented sector dispute tribunal. At Shelter Scotland, we’re too used to hearing about disputes between tenants and private landlords or letting agents. When these rela

A build to rent scheme of up to 400 homes was approved at Fountainbridge in Edinburgh last year Shelter Scotland’s James Battye blogs on why affordable housing must be the priority in Scotland’s housebuilding programme.

What support is available to help those in fuel poverty? Lisa Glass blogs on Shelter Scotland’s new guide with Energy Action Scotland. There has been a lot of attention recently on fuel poverty, and 748,000 fuel poor households marked a failed target to eradicate fuel poverty by November 2016. Two

Aoife Deery digests Shelter Scotland’s latest report into the increasing use of temporary accommodation in Scotland. For the third year running, Shelter Scotland carried out research into the use of temporary accommodation by local authorities and compiled a report of our findings. The data suppli

The increasing time spent in temporary accommodation by homeless families with children in Scotland is now far too long and risks harming their health and wellbeing, a new report has warned today. Housing and homelessness charity Shelter Scotland said that families with children spent a total of nea

The vital and sometimes life-saving work carried out by dozens of organisations across Scotland that tackle health issues caused by fuel poverty has been mapped in a comprehensive new report. Co-authored by Shelter Scotland and Energy Action Scotland, ‘Health-Related Fuel Poverty Schemes in Scotla