Homeless Network Scotland

After GWSF’s David Bookbinder pondered the wider implications of the City of Edinburgh Council’s decision to suspend housing list lets in favour of homelessness allocations, Homeless Network Scotland has issued a response. Three weeks ago, Edinburgh Council took the decision to susp

A partnership programme to help prevent people from becoming homeless has been launched by the social justice secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville.  The £1 million Upstream Homelessness Prevention Fund will bring together Registered Social Landlords (RSLs), third sector organisations, commun

Emergency action to suspend council housing allocations across Edinburgh has been hailed as a bold response to the city's mounting homelessness crisis.

Maggie Brunjes, chief executive of Homeless Network Scotland, on why the housing emergency can’t become a cover for deepening exclusion. Picture two paths: one leads to an ordinary flat, a space to call your own, no different from anyone else’s. The other to a sleeping pod, a hostel room

As housing and homelessness organisations call on the Scottish Government to publicly commit to defending legal rights to safe and suitable housing, Mhairi Snowden, head of policy and programmes at Homeless Network Scotland, said urgent reassurance is required. It is vital that we keep the housing r

Housing and homelessness organisations across Scotland have this morning written to Shirley-Anne Somerville urging the Scottish Government to publicly commit to defending legal rights to safe and suitable housing.

Five new directors and trustees who collectively have a wealth of diverse expertise across housing and homelessness, the wider third sector and local and national government have been appointed by Homeless Network Scotland. They join a board of nine who are at the forefront of progressing the action

A collective of organisations that support people affected by homelessness has warned that people forced to sleep rough in Scotland could die this winter because of a severe lack of accommodation amid record levels of homelessness.

Delegates at Scotland’s annual homelessness conference will be tasked this year with creating a route map out of the housing and homelessness emergency.  The focus of Right Here, Right Now is what action taken now can ease the escalating crisis and what needs to happen next to create a be

Homeless Network Scotland's chief executive Maggie Brünjes responds to new figures that revealed a record-breaking 10,110 children are living in homeless accommodation and an increase in the number of homeless applications. The annual homelessness statistics released yesterday by the Scottish G

Homelessness workers in frontline roles have been recognised for the critical jobs they do with the announcement of access to a leading discount scheme.

A major new test of change has been launched to explore how to break down barriers to support faced by tens of thousands of people in Scotland who face multiple disadvantages – with their experience made worse by unequal access to help. No Wrong Door Scotland will draw on a wide range of profe

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

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