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Shelter Scotland
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Revealed: over 1300 eviction orders granted despite ‘ban’
More than 1,300 evictions were granted during Scotland’s so-called eviction ‘ban’ while many tenants were forced to rack up thousands in debts before being offered social housing.
Keeping the door open: how a new approach could stop evictions and inspire change
Scotland is in the grip of a rental crisis. As our investigation highlights concerning levels of evictions, we investigate what Scotland needs to bring about change.
Homeless crisis sparks call for Scotland to declare ‘national housing emergency’
Charities have called on the Scottish Government to declare a national housing emergency, claiming Scotland’s homeless system is at breaking point.
‘It’s like getting in a time machine’: homeless agencies warn of rise in rough sleeping
Rough sleeping in Scotland’s largest city has escalated dramatically in recent weeks.
Mark Fortune forced to fix flat ‘not fit for human habitation’
An Edinburgh property firm owned by landlord Mark Fortune has been ordered to make one of its flats…
Glasgow homeless hotel making up to a million for ‘rundown’ rooms sparks outrage
A Glasgow hotel housing vulnerable homeless people is being run “like an open prison” while charging £1,400 a month for cramped and rundown rooms, it is alleged.
Claim SNP delivered over 105,000 affordable homes is True
Ferret Fact Service looks into an SNP claim about affordable housing.
Councils spent almost £300m on private firms ‘profiting from misery’ of homelessness
Councils have been accused of a “moral failure” to provide decent housing to homeless people and of overseeing a “fiscal disaster” as costs top quarter of a billion.
More than 13,000 Scots households in temporary accommodation seeking homes
More than 13,000 Scots households – including 7,510 children – were in temporary accommodation at the end of September last year waiting for housing due to homelessness, according to official figures.
