Shelter Scotland

Adam Lang Adam Lang, head of communications and policy at Shelter Scotland, believes good progress has been made since the Commission on Housing and Wellbeing launched its report a year ago, but there is still a long way still to go.

Rosemary Brotchie By Rosemary Brotchie, policy and research manager for Shelter Scotland

Shelter Scotland has accused local and national government of taking their eye off the ball with efforts to tackle and prevent what it calls the “national shame” of homelessness levels in the country. According to the housing and homelessness charity, a household becomes homeless in Scotland eve

Bryan Powell By Bryan Powell, private landlord support officer at Shelter Scotland

Nominations are being sought across Scotland to find the country’s 2016 empty homes champions. The Howdens Scottish Empty Homes Champion of the Year Awards showcases the exemplary work of groups or individuals across Scotland to bring empty properties back into use.

Rosalind Main & Graeme Brown A multi-disciplinary artist from Edinburgh who recently graduated with a BA in 3D Design has turned her talents to raise funds to help people facing bad housing and homelessness.

Ellie Hutchinson By Ellie Hutchinson, private renting project manager at Shelter Scotland

By Tom Youll from Shelter Scotland’s Get advice project So now the dust has settled, the chairs have been stacked, the tables collapsed and the Shelter Scotland Product Forge Hackathon has come to an end. I thought I’d bring you all up to speed with how the weekend went, who the winners were and

As the iconic Edinburgh Book Festival gets underway today, Shelter Scotland’s bookshop in Stockbridge is launching a week-long event selling vintage and antiquarian books and other reading materials. Among the treasures due to go on sale are an illustrated dictionary in French from the 1930s, the

Graeme Brown Dear Editor

Photo courtesy of Shelter Scotland's Flickr page Scotland’s first housing crisis hackathon has been won by a team who created an ‘I Need Help’ button to signpost people facing homelessness or bad housing to the nearest available resources that could help them.

Antonia Bird This month the Filmhouse in Edinburgh are presenting a season celebrating the work of British director Antonia Bird. The season includes a rare screening of the 1993 film Safe, starring (amongst others) Robert Carlyle as a homeless Scot trying to eke out an existence on the streets of L

Calls are growing for local and national authorities to intervene into the increasing use of short-term letting sites which many believe are having a negative effect on Scotland’s housing market. According to data by Murray Cox, a New York-based community activist and founder of non-commercial dat

Miss Piggy with volunteers Natalia Dobrowska and Carol Cullen A six foot tall papier mâché model of Muppets favourite Miss Piggy has become a temporary Motherwell landmark after being loaned out to mark the first birthday of a local charity shop.

The standard of accommodation and the quality of services provided for homeless people are under threat from funding cuts to Scotland’s councils, housing charity Shelter Scotland has warned after new research was published yesterday. The charity is calling on the Scottish Government and COSLA to f