At Homeless Action Scotland we welcome today’s celebration of Scottish Housing and this year’s particular focus on social housing. However, Scotland as a nation needs to do so much better. Social housing, irrespective of council or housing association is a vital part of how we...
Our CEO Gavin Yates reports back from the Homeless Prevention Strategy Group (HPSG) and warns that despite worrying homelessness statistics this year, potentially yet more bad news is on the horizon. The HPSG is a group of representatives from the Voluntary Sector, Health, Social Landlords, Scottish...
Homeless Action Scotland is delighted to see reports on social media from the leader of Glasgow City Council that they have identified £4m to support those organisations who were about to receive devastating cuts. This is thanks largely to how the Law Centres and CABx were...
HAS Calls For Immediate Rejection Of CABx Cuts The proposal to defund a series of advice agencies in Glasgow is not just wrongheaded - it’s utterly bizarre. (1) Later this week Councillors will have the opportunity to reject these cuts. If they continue with the proposed cuts...
The Homelessness statistics issued by the Scottish Government yesterday were an indication of the depth of the housing emergency facing Scotland. The statistics cover the period immediately pre-Covid 19 and show increases in people formally going down the homeless route and, worryingly, increases in rough sleeping...
COVID 19 has been one of the most challenging and difficult times our society has faced since the Second World War. We are far from out of the pandemic, and we are less than a year into it affecting our society. Every family, company, organisation,...
Scotland has some of the most progressive homelessness legislation in the world yet we still routinely see over 30k homeless applications being made each year to the various local authorities across Scotland....
Today Reform Scotland, a leading independent think tank, has published a guest article by Homeless Action Scotland CEO, Gavin Yates. Within the article, Gavin sets out how in a post-COVID 19 Scotland the economic case for building social housing perfectly complements the social reasons to go...
Evictions in Scotland do not take place immediately should a tenant find themself in financial trouble. The system for starting eviction proceedings in Scotland takes a number of months from when a tenant first finds themselves unable to pay their rent. Eviction is not inevitable....
There has been a growing consensus that the primary cause of homelessness is poverty. The most accurate indicator of becoming homeless at some point is being born poor. The COVID 19 pandemic that has dominated public and political discourse for the last fortnight highlights the real...