Gordon MacRae

New homelessness stats out today

Over the lifetime of this parl
⬆️Homelessness has gone up 18%
⬆️Rough sleeping more than doubled
⬆️Kids in temp up 26%
⬆️Households in temp up 27%
⬇️These stats come just after social housing starts fell to a 30year low.
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Paul MacLennan MSP @scottishgov.bsky.social responds next. Read the full report here: scotland.shelter.org.uk/professional...

@satwatr.bsky.social from @opfs.org.uk “how many of us would accept this for our children so why the bloody hell should we accept this for others?” @shelterscotland.bsky.social

@nickhobbs.bsky.social from Scottish Children’s Commissioner responding to the findings.

'I've finally got my own bedroom after a lifetime of homelessness' Shelter report reveals children growing up in temporary accommodation are being harmed by Scotland’s 'broken and biased' homelessness system.

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Great to be joined by the Housing Minister, MSPs, charity leaders and experts by experience to hear about @shelterscotland.bsky.social new report on impact of bad temp accm on children’s lives.

Housing Minister Paul McLennan MSP speaking at Scottish Empty Homes Partnership conference 2025

Minister now taking questions

Great to have @scottishgov.bsky.social Housing Minister @paulmclennanmsp.bsky.social speaking at Scottish Empty Homes conference and confirming two years funding for the partnership. @shelterscotland.bsky.social

important by Scot Human Rights Comm today "deeply concerned that the rising rates of homelessness and shortages of affordable housing demonstrate not only failure to progress the realisation of rights but may amount to retrogression in Scotland." www.scottishhumanrights.com/media/2970/s...

Politics Scotland - 05/02/2025 A look at the week’s events at Westminster and Holyrood.

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@shelterscotland we think today’s devastating homelessness statistics must not be ignored. At 26m mark i try to layout our case for change. Good to hear MSPs from across the chamber respond but will any of them vote for the money and provide the leadership we need?

x.com/Daily_Record... massive if true.

‘Child poverty has got a lot worse’: outgoing charity boss lambasts Tory failures and social media giants Peter Wanless of the NSPCC calls for more preventive action on child poverty, a ban on ‘morally repugnant’ smacking and favours guardrails online rather than bans The boss of the UK’s leading children’s charity has attacked the Conservatives for their…

‘Child poverty has got a lot worse’: outgoing charity boss lambasts Tory failures and social media giants

Fraser of Allander: ‘limited room for manoeuvre’ in Scottish Budget Finance Secretary Shona Robison only has “limited room for manoeuvre” in next week’s Scottish Budget, experts have warned, despite the…

“Spending on child poverty has actually fallen by 13%”
Fraser of Allander: ‘limited room for manoeuvre’ in Scottish Budget
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‘Rage, rage against the dying of the light’

From poverty through homelessness to climate change, if those who can, choose not to, then rage is a reasonable response. Let them come to terms with what they could have achieved.

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Official record of RAGE against the housing emergency in Scotland. Home is not only a fundamental human need, it’s a basic human right. So why are the Scottish Government completely failing to address the housing emergency, leaving 1.5 million people without a

Time to end Scotland’s housing emergency act.scotland.shelter.org.uk/official-rec....