Strong piece on housing, ahead of the budget announcements today

Read our response to the Scottish Budget statement: homelessnetwork.scot/2024/12/04/hom…

So pleased with some key announcements in today's #budget, esp money that will get us back on track with building enough social homes for people who urgently need them, and also for a decent pot of new money to pilot the homeless prevention duties, outlined in the #housingbill 👍

A pleasure to take part in this event and give a reading of Benjamin Zephaniah's poem 'Home and Away'

Right now, record numbers of people in Scotland are experiencing homelessness. But if the Housing Bill is passed, people will be prevented from being made homeless, and Scotland will have one of the most progressive homelessness systems in the world. RT to share the good news.

Our head of policy and communications Maeve McGoldrick said: "These figures show councils are working to help move people out of homelessness and into settled accommodation, but they can't keep up with growing demand for their help." (maeve mcgoldrick) bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Planning to attend Scottish Labour conference this weekend? We'll be holding a fringe event on Sunday 23rd at 8.30am, to explore how we can prevent rising homelessness in Scotland - join us!

McLennan highlights Housing Bill’s ‘robust’ homelessness prevention measures scottishhousingnews.com/articles/mclen…

Next week is stage 2 of the #housingbill. lots of really good amendments lodged, we're hoping these ones will pass & make the duties much more robust and increase accountability in the system, as well as allow for the infrastructure (assessment and data sharing) needed to deliver

Ellie is a support worker on the frontline of our services. She explains how the Housing Bill will help prevent homelessness. The Bill will allow people to get help earlier and get public services to work together to prevent homelessness. Share & show your support for the Bill.

📢Great news! Following our campaign, Scot Gov Fairer has launched a new set of pilots, aimed at testing out how we can prevent homelessness from happening in the first place. Want to know more? Check out this thread....

'These pilots can help us build a better system' - our Senior Policy Officer Beth Reid takes a look at what we need to learn from the newly launched pilots, testing out how plans to prevent homelessness will work in practice scottishhousingnews.com/articles/beth-…

As part of the group brought together to explore the creation of homelessness prevention duties, I welcome the announcement by Màiri McAllan of more pilot funding. Prevention coupled with urgently building more socially rented homes is crucial in this housing emergency.

Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville met Dundee Fighting for Fairness and local councillors to discuss strengthening services that tackle child poverty. Working together will help to build a fairer Scotland where every child has the best start in life. #FairerScotland

Huge thanks to Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar & MSP Mark Griffin for taking the time to meet to discuss the actions needed to end homelessness in Scotland. Homelessness is not inevitable - together we can create a Scotland where everyone has a safe, secure place to call home

"These aren’t just numbers. Behind every one of these figures is a real person – someone forced to endure the pain & indignity that homelessness brings with it" - maeve mcgoldrick writes for the Sun on how to end homelessness in Scotland thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-…

We did it!🥳 After years of hard work, last night, Scottish Parliament voted to introduce new laws to prevent people from becoming homeless in Scotland. This is a huge win! Here's Eilidh to explain how we did it👇 We couldn't have achieved this without your support. Thank you!

Our new campaign is out today. Sign up and help us make ending all forms of homlessness in Scotland an election priority. We believe it can be done by 2040. We just need the political will to make it happen. End homelessness in Scotland | Crisis UK share.google/hJjEMyBRTNUwif…

Mairi McAllan: We will end homelessness in Scotland heraldscotland.com/news/25536994.… Great write up of our SNP conference fringe

Always a pleasure to hear from Crisis about our shared ambition to end homelessness together. I was pleased that Jack Middleton, my successor as SNP candidate for Aberdeen Central was able to join us too.