Homelessness

The founder and CEO of the homelessness charity Rowan Alba is to stand down after 26 years. Helen Carlin began her career as a housing visitor at the City of Edinburgh Council in 1985. Through this work, Helen saw the need for long-term supported accommodation for homeless people and began a discour

Glasgow City Mission has marked the 100th night since this season's Overnight Welcome Centre (OWC) opened on 1 December.

A charity has praised two young people for their valiant efforts in raising awareness and money to support socially excluded people in the North-East. Aberdeen Cyrenians supports people in crisis who are affected by homelessness, poverty, abuse, addiction, mental ill-health, and complex needs. Their

A number of housing options aimed at providing affordable solutions to help tackle homelessness in West Lothian have been considered by the council, with a modular housing option ruled out.

On Friday, 24th March, individuals and communities across Scotland will leave the comfort of their beds to take part in the Big Bethany Sleep Out. Their goal: to bring awareness and raise funds to support people experiencing homelessness in Scotland.

Shelter Scotland is bringing its campaign to stop the cuts to social housing to Holyrood, as MSPs prepare to vote on the 2023/24 Scottish Budget.

Scotland's councils are finding it increasingly difficult to fully meet their statutory duties on homelessness, particularly in providing temporary accommodation to people experiencing homelessness, a new report by the Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) has found.

West Lothian Council has been considering ways to deliver additional housing rapidly to meet local demand for homes for rent. Council officers have been looking at quick-build housing solutions to provide more homes for rent and reduce reliance on hotels and B&Bs, to see if they could work in We

Temporary housing provided by local authorities will likely be deemed to be suitable if it generally meets the needs of the household as a group, a court has ruled.

Shelter Scotland has blamed the Scottish Government’s choice to "deprioritise the fight against homelessness" for new figures which revealed that homelessness in the country is at an all-time high.

A community growing hub which helps people who have been homeless has become the latest local project to benefit from the City of Edinburgh Council’s community benefits scheme. Following a great deal of community-based support from buildings solutions service John G Macintosh (JGM), the Pilton

The first 50 nights of Glasgow City Mission's 2022/23 Overnight Welcome Centre have seen hundreds of guests accessing the service who were otherwise at risk of rough sleeping, the charity has revealed.

A homelessness charity’s fundraising drive has been boosted by a £2,000 donation from housebuilder Persimmon East Scotland.

More than half of renters (52%) and almost half of people with mortgages (49%) are concerned about their ability to pay their housing costs in 12 months’ time, according to new research commissioned from Ipsos by the Centre for Homelessness Impact. Tenants in the private rented sector are most

The first free library showcasing realistic and evidence-led images of people experiencing homelessness that seek to challenge negative representations has been launched by the Centre for Homelessness Impact (CHI).