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…
Category: Homelessness
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…