Homelessness

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A new digital map aimed at boosting awareness of projects helping to prevent homelessness in Scotland and beyond has been launched by the charity Crisis. The interactive map, covering projects around the UK, allows service providers and policy-makers to search for and explore work being done across

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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

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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

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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

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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

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