Homelessness

East Lothian Council has made changes to its housing allocation policy to ease the extreme pressure on the homelessness service and provide improved outcomes for its homeless clients.

Funding to help councils increase the supply of social and affordable homes has been largely allocated to five authorities with sustained temporary accommodation pressures, the Scottish Government has revealed.

Scottish Veterans Residences (SVR) has released a powerful new mini-documentary that gives insight into the impact of its work on supporting homeless ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen.

A 90-year-old supporter of Glasgow City Mission will be raising funds for the charity by zip-sliding down the Clyde this Friday. Gladys Speedie turned 90 in April this year and she wanted to mark the event by helping others. She has galvanised her friends to sponsor her and convinced some of them to

Aberdeen Cyrenians, a charity and social care provider tackling homelessness, violence, domestic abuse and other forms of social exclusion in the north east, has unveiled Prax Foundation Roots as a charity partner.

Homelessness charity Social Bite is encouraging people to hop, skip, jump, run or squat their way to helping break the cycle of homelessness with its 100 Mile Challenge from 1st September, ending on 10th October to mark World Homeless Day.

A new report that aims to understand what the national housing emergency looks like on the ground has been published.

People at risk of homelessness interact dozens of times with public services in health, justice and beyond without getting any support to help them keep their homes, a new report from national homelessness charity Crisis has found. Released today, ‘A Window of Opportunity’ examines peopl

The Homeless World Cup co-founder and social entrepreneur Mel Young MBE is to receive the prestigious Edinburgh Award. Mel Young MBE has been selected to receive the accolade from a shortlist of nominations cast by the Edinburgh public. He will receive an engraved Loving Cup from the city’s Lo

Glasgow has signed up to the International Mayors Council on Homelessness - a newly formed forum for mayors and other elected members from cities spanning three continents - to commit to ending homelessness and call for global action on the issue.

The number of households facing homelessness in England is the highest since records began, according to new UK Government figures.

An innovative project which will involve people with lived experience of homelessness to help shape the support they receive has started in Inverclyde. The council’s Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) is one of the first in Scotland to work with the charity Homeless Network Scotland on

Homeless Network Scotland (HNS) has appointed Mhairi Snowden who will take up the post of head of policy and programmes in September. Mhairi joins HNS from the Human Rights Consortium Scotland, where she was eirector, and has a distinguished record of work across public life in Scotland and across t

Support for homeless people and those at risk of becoming homeless in West Dunbartonshire has been praised by inspectors. An unannounced inspection of the West Dunbartonshire Council’s Supported Housing Service - which helps vulnerable people over the age of 16 to develop skills to maintain te

The Allied Vehicles Charitable Trust (AVCT) has donated £3,000 to Rock Trust, Scotland’s dedicated youth homelessness charity.