About our organisation
Vision
A Scotland where homelessness is prevented and everyone has a safe and settled home.
Mission
As Scotland’s national membership network, we connect people and organisations to share insight, influence decisions, challenge inequality and drive evidence-based change – so everyone has a safe and settled home.
A brief history
Homeless Network Scotland was established in 1980 to bring together the different sectors, organisations and individuals that want to put an end to homelessness and to retain a long-term overview. This overarching purpose is as true today as it was then.
1980
Established in Glasgow
New legislation and rights: Housing (Scotland) Act
1987
Rough Sleeping Initiative launched in Scotland
1997
Renamed Glasgow Homelessness Network
2002
New Legislation
and Rights Homelessness etc
(Scotland) Act 2003
2003
Glasgow’s 5 year Hostel Closure
Programme begins
2003
Health and Homelessness Standards introduced for HNS Boards
2005
Statutory Guidance on Preventing Homelessness published
2009
2012
The 2012 target: Removal of Priority Need
Launch of Housing First Scotland
2016
Co-found and launch
Centre for Homelessness Impact
2018
Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Group Final Report and a new plan to End Homelessness
in Scotland
2018
Homeless Network Scotland
2019
Our team
Learn about the people behind the work we do.
Our annual reports
Find out about our work through our annual reports.