Register of Key Research and Data

Housing in Scotland: Current Context and Preparing for the Future (2023)

Solace and ALACHO

The supply of social housing in Scotland is facing unsustainable pressures amid a critical lack of capacity, according to a joint report from SOLACE and ALACHO, representing council chief executives and chief housing offices. The report sets out short- and medium-term recommendations in the context of quarter of a million people on a waiting list for social housing, with only 26,102 allocations made last year. 

Hidden homelessness: international evidence review (2023)

Scottish Government

The report notes the wide variety of methods and strategies used internationally to identify and count people experiencing homelessness, which are closely related to each country’s laws and policies on homelessness. And concludes that because hidden homelessness is a complex and fluid experience, that using mixed methods of data and research will better identify those experiencing it that might otherwise be missed from current ways of counting homelessness.

Hard Edges Scotland (2019)

Robertson Trust and
Lankelly Chase

Establishes the extent and nature of severe and multiple disadvantage in Scotland and a mismatch with services. From I-SPHERE, commissioned by Lankelly Chase and Robertson Trust..

Minoritised ethnic access to social housing in Scotland at key transition points (2023)

Shelter

A new report has called on the housing sector to make critical changes to improve the experience of social housing among people from minoritised ethnic communities in Scotland. In a partnership between Shelter Scotland, CEMVO, Heriot Watt University and abrdn Financial Fairness Trust, the research examined the accessibility of social housing in Scotland for adults at significant life transitions.

Survivor-informed support for trafficked children in Scotland (2023)

University of Stirling

Survivor-informed support for trafficked children in Scotland, is newly published research from the University of Stirling. The report documents the findings of young people in Scotland who have experienced trafficking and examines sustainable support for trafficked children to improve their long-term outcomes. The report also highlights the Illegal Migration Bill’s potentially seismic consequences for children who were trafficked.

WOMEN’S SURVEY 2023
Experiences of rising costs across Scotland

Scottish Women’s Budget Group

Scottish Women’s Budget Group has published a new report on research detailing the gendered impact of austerity, as women act as shock absorbers for poverty in the household and manage caring responsibilities at the expense of paid work. Particular groups of women are hit hardest by increasing poverty and insecurity such as women with a disability, from ethnic minority communities and single parents. 

Gaining and Preserving Pioneer Status: Key Lessons from the Housing First Pathfinder Programme in Scotland (2023)

I-SPHERE

The final evaluation of Scotland’s 3-year Housing First Pathfinder and an analysis of what needs preserved if Scotland’s status as Housing First pioneer is to be retained going forward.

Staying in: a place-based approach to preventing homelessness (2022)

Homeless Network Scotland

Findings from a test-of-change programme exploring what happened when two communities set about to prevent homelessness and to share what they designed and discovered.

Shared Spaces Final Research Report (2021)

Homeless Network Scotland and Indigo House

Report on research to understand the potential future role of supported and shared housing to prevent and resolve homelessness in Scotland.

Health and Homelessness in Scotland (2018)

Scottish Government

Study exploring the relationship between homelessness and health which showed that at least 8% of the Scottish population has experienced homelessness.

Scotland’s Transition to Rapid Rehousing: Market Area Analysis, Legislative and Culture Review (2018)

Homeless Network Scotland, Social Bite and Indigo House

Report on research to understand the potential future role of supported and shared housing to prevent and resolve homelessness in Scotland.

Aye We Can Final Report (2018)

Homeless Network Scotland

Consultation with over 400 people with first-hand experience of homelessness, whose priorities shaped the recommendations of the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Group.