The All in For Change team of people with personal and professional experience of homelessness is touring Scotland again to find out what’s happening on the ground in services — against a backdrop of unprecedented housing pressures. The Change team will hold free events in Aberdeen, Greenock, Falkirk, Kirkcaldy and…
Homeless Network Scotland’s chief executive Maggie Brunjes, and Prof Andrea E Williamson from the University of Glasgow co-authored an editorial in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published this month. It highlights the stubborn collective consciousness that continues to divorce homelessness from the larger health and economic inequality that causes it…
Homeless Network Scotland is deeply concerned by cuts to affordable housing spending announced in the 2024-2025 Budget. This comes despite consistent and united warnings on the urgent need to tackle a spiralling housing crisis which is holding back people and communities. Without more homes, we exclude thousands of people in…
A coalition of experts has called on local and national government to adopt a groundbreaking new tool created to measure progress being made towards ending homelessness in Scotland. The Ending Homelessness Together Monitor is designed to report on indicators that reflect the entwined and predictable causes of homelessness including poverty,…
The Ending Homelessness Together Monitor The Measuring Impact Task and Finish Group was appointed by the Scottish Government and COSLA Homelessness Prevention and Strategy Group. The purpose of the short-life group was to deliver an outcome focused framework that can measure the impact of the Ending Homelessness Together plan. The…