Shelter Scotland protests outside Glasgow City Chambers against unlawful practice of ‘gatekeeping’

HOMELESS CHARITY Shelter Scotland says Glasgow City council broke homeless law more than 3,000 times last year, and campaigners gathered outside City Chambers today (5 July) to protest the issue.

One year on to the day from Glasgow’s Housing and Homelessness Summit, the charity has said the council is still failing to meet its legal duty to provide homeless people who come to them for help with temporary accommodation. 

Housing minister Kevin Stewart warns that homelessness is predicted to rise due to UK Government welfare cuts, despite efforts to mitigate their impact

THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT has pledged £21m of a £50m fund in order to offer faster, greater support to rapidly rehouse those at risk of homelessness, or who are living in temporary accommodation.

Confirming the details of the investment in Holyrood today [27 June], housing minister Kevin Stewart declared: “Can we end homelessness in Scotland? Aye, we can.”

The Invisibles homeless charity held an appeal at the Green Brigade anti-discrimination tournament

A GLASWEGIAN community action group held their annual drive collecting used trainers for the homeless on Saturday and were delighted to receive over two hundred pairs.

CommonSpace examines the impact of Universal Credit on four of the most vulnerable demographics to be hit by the benefits change

AS the full roll-out of Universal Credit in Scotland gets closer calls for it to be halted or reformed by charities and politicians are getting increasingly louder.

Craig Paterson provides an eyewitness account for CommonSpace from Milan, where the European housing movement has taken its demands directly to the European Parliament and European Commission offices

A EUROPEAN coalition of housing campaigners demanded the EU take action to solve the housing crisis in Milan today [13 April], confronting representatives of the European Parliament with their list of demands.

Common Weal head of policy Ben Wray charts how mothers - often the hardest hit by the benefit cap - in Edinburgh are organising against the injustices in the housing system

AS winter comes in, and the nights get cold and icy, the spectre of homelessness for people all over Scotland becomes that little bit more frightening. This winter is set to be bad. A combination of cuts, increased cost of living and an acute housing crisis is taking its toll, forcing people into destitution.

Amid his turmoil, Homeless in Glasgow author John-Paul Clark saw some of the best Glasgow has to offer

ENROLLING back at university, the thought occurred to me that I have been studying for as long as Jim Murphy. Unlike Jim, though, I have already graduated with one degree and will at least finish next year with my dignity intact.

In the final part of an unmissable series, John-Paul Clark reflects on the biggest lessons from his homelessness journey

MY own JFK moment arrived on 19 July 2010 with David Cameron's Big Society speech.

His promise of agency in order that people needn't turn to the government was doublespeak for another Tory onslaught upon the working classes. I spat his words back at him but could never have imagined the impact it would have upon my own life.