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    Category: Homelessness

    Record high reported in homelessness numbers

    THE number of people classified as ‘homeless’ at the end of September last year was at its highest since such data began to be collected…

    admin January 31, 2023

    Legislation lifts local obligation on people experiencing homelessness

    PEOPLE experiencing homelessness in Scotland will no longer have to demonstrate a local connection to the services they are seeking to access. Following legislation (here)…

    admin November 29, 2022

    250 deaths recorded among people experiencing homelessness

    AN estimated 250 people died while experiencing homelessness in Scotland during last year, according to new figures published by National Records of Scotland.   Says…

    admin November 22, 2022

    ‘Housing First’ tenancy numbers continue to increase

    ALMOST 100 new tenancies aimed squarely at people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness have been created between July 1 and the end…

    admin November 15, 2022

    Rise recorded in number of homelessness applications

    THE number of applications for homelessness assistance has risen between 2020/21 and this financial year, 2021/22. According to the Scottish Government’s chief statistician, here, there…

    admin August 18, 2022

    Radical rural housing

    Welcome to the ‘Smart Clachan’, a response to rural homelessness, writes Derek Logie, of Rural Housing Scotland… LAST month, I was asked to make a…

    admin April 27, 2022

    Tenancies milestone reached

    ONE thousand housing tenancies – under a scheme that places housing, for homeless people, first, and asks questions later – have been provided by Scotland’s…

    admin February 26, 2022

    Slight rise noted in Scots homelessness applications

    BETWEEN April and September last year, there were 17,447 applications for ‘homelessness assistance’, representing a two per cent (278) increase compared with the same six-month…

    admin February 1, 2022

    New approach beginning to tackle homelessness in Glasgow

    A NEW way of tackling homelessness has provided a raft of secure tenancies for people considered homeless in Glasgow. Housing First – pioneered in Finland…

    admin December 14, 2021

    Latest homelessness statistics

    APPLICATIONS for ‘homelessness assistance’ fell by almost ten per cent between 2019/20 and 2020/21. But, say statistics issued by the Scottish Government’s chief statistician, over…

    admin June 30, 2021

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