In our response to the Scottish Government consultation on a Ministerial Statement for modifying local connection referrals in Scotland we reaffirmed our strong commitment to the suspension of local connection referrals in Scotland, endorsing the position that better housing outcomes are more likely to be achieved through increased choice for…

Homeless Network Scotland and Crisis Scotland, working with local authority and Scottish Government colleagues, have prepared a short guide on what the HARSAG recommendations mean for Rapid Rehousing Transition Plans going forward. The guide is intended to assist local authority leaders to transfer policy and practice recommendations from the Homelessness…

The latest update from Scotland’s Housing First Pathfinder Tracker, published this week, shows that there have been no evictions since the Pathfinder began more than two years ago. More than 300 tenancies have now been created with just under 90% of people remaining in their home.  These latest numbers demonstrates the effectiveness of the Housing First model in…

At Homeless Network we know the importance of working together and sharing knowledge. We asked the people who make up our wider collective network some questions about their perspectives on the importance of shared learning, collective impact, the ingredients for successful collaboration, and their own unique contribution to the process…

The risk and impact of homelessness is not distributed equally. Some groups of people are more affected by, overrepresented in, or excluded from the homelessness system.  This morning we kicked off the final day of Safe As Houses by exploring how homelessness discriminates in the same way as the pandemic…