A charity is calling for all Scottish parties to back its five-point plan to end homelessness as it launched its new manifesto yesterday. With backing from Cabinet Secretary for Social
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An estimated 300,000 socially rented homes could be lost in England by 2020, a housing chief has warned. The Government’s drive to boost home ownership will radically change the housing
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More people could be helped out of the “homelessness trap” if they were given similar help to get into the rental sector as first-time buyers receive to get on to
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Professor Green has said his latest documentary on homelessness made him realise that he had “no idea of the severity of the situation” or how “difficult it is to get
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Changes to housing benefit could have a “catastrophic impact” on domestic abuse victims living in women’s refuges, Alex Neil has warned. The Social Justice Secretary said refuges had been “left
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Changes to housing benefits could have a “devastating impact” on women’s refuges, with campaigners fearing a funding shortfall could force centres to close their doors. Scottish Women’s Aid said plans
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“Chronic” insecurity in the private rented sector in England has led to a fourfold increase since 2010 in the number of households forced into homelessness when tenancies end, according to
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The first Middlesbrough asylum seekers’ homes with controversial red doors have had their entrances repainted, the services giant with the contract to house them has said. Doors on the properties
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More than 352,000 rental sector tenants in England have faced the threat of losing their home over the last year – equating to one tenant every 90 seconds – according
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Most social housing tenants will see little or no direct benefit from Chancellor George Osborne’s promised cut in rents, an economic think tank has said. Mr Osborne announced in his
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