Shelter Scotland

The new national housing agency must focus on affordable homes after government breaks building promise, according to Shelter Scotland. Shelter Scotland has urged the Scottish Government to make building social homes a national mission of the highest importance, after new figures showed the governme

Shelter Scotland has published findings from an independent anti-racist review of its services in Glasgow. Most participants reported positive experiences, with 92% saying they were satisfied or very satisfied with their experiences with the charity. Key themes outlined in the review were the suppor

Shelter Scotland and Wheatley have enlisted independent researchers to review how their services are delivered in Glasgow for Black People and People of Colour through an anti-racist lens, so that they can better meet the needs of communities. 

The public will be enabled to provide newly elected MSPs with a local snapshot of the housing emergency and its impact, thanks to a new interactive digital tool launched by Shelter Scotland and funded by IKEA. The tool will allow residents to directly connect to their MSPs within the first 100

The decision to merge the previously standalone housing brief with the social justice portfolio risks diluting political focus at a time when Scotland remains in a declared housing emergency, housing bodies have warned.

Shelter Scotland has urged the incoming Scottish Government to retain the cabinet secretary for housing post, warning that momentum on tackling the national housing emergency will stall if the role is downgraded.

Candidates from across Scotland’s political parties came together in Edinburgh yesterday to set out plans to tackle the country’s housing emergency, with a shared commitment to delivering more homes across all tenures and retaining the role of housing cabinet secretary emerging as common

Most people in Scotland live under local authorities which do not have a fully functioning homelessness service, according to Shelter Scotland. The charity's analysis found that 2.9 million people in Scotland (54%) lack a guarantee of access to their legal right to housing if they experience homeles

Social housebuilding is on track to fall far below what is needed to tackle the housing emergency, new data has revealed. Figures from the Scottish Government show the number of affordable homes completed under the Affordable Housing Supply Programme (AHSP) in 2025 dropped by 25% compared to 2024.

Shelter Scotland has said it is "heartbroken" to have lost one of its shops after it was destroyed in a major fire in Glasgow city centre. The housing and homelessness charity's vital hub was among the businesses impacted by the Union Street inferno.

Dundee has formally declared a housing emergency, with councillors, campaigners and frontline organisations warning that the city’s housing system is now failing many of its residents.

Scotland’s social landlords are facing renewed pressure to adopt meaningful anti‑racism policies after new research laid bare the extent to which Black people and people of colour are being failed by the housing system. Speaking on the Scottish Housing News Podcast, Shelter Scotland’s

Below is a full transcript of episode 78 of the Scottish Housing News Podcast titled 'Confronting systemic racism in housing' with Gordon Llewellyn‑MacRae and Dr Nadia Ayed’. Listen to the episode here.

Dundee native and award-winning actor Brian Cox is joining calls for Dundee to formally declare a housing emergency. The Succession star has today endorsed the Dundee Housing Emergency Action Plan (HEAP), which was brought forward by the Dundee Housing Emergency Coalition to tackle the issue in the

The 10,480 children who are waking up without somewhere to call home in Scotland are the victims of a "lost parliament", Shelter Scotland said today.