📈 This graph shows the number of children living in temporary accommodation over the past five years. And it keeps climbing.
Should ANY child in Scotland be homeless?
If you answered no, help us fight for a future where every child has a safe place to call home. 🏠
👉 shelterscotland.org/ActCH
RE: Our Glasgow Union St. shop:
Everyone's safe and being supported, but our shop, part of the community for 9 years, has been destroyed.
We thank emergency services for their tireless work.
You can support us by visiting our other shops or donating. ❤️
Full statement: shelterscotland.org/GUSShop
Scotland's housing system is broken and biased, caused by decades of underinvestment and political choices across successive governments.
Stand with us and demand the social homes our nation needs to end the #HousingEmergency once and for all.
✊ shelterscotland.org/GetBuilding
CIH president Julie Haydon: "Housing’s strength doesn’t come from bricks and mortar — it comes from people." She adds: "Housing is not just infrastructure, it is resilience — and resilience sustains people."
#ScotlandsHousingFestival
@shelterscotland.bsky.social director Alison Watson: "The housing emergency is still here and it continues to get worse...We have built a system that costs a fortune but which fails people every day."
#ScotlandsHousingFestival
The #HousingEmergency has consequences we can’t ignore.
Devastating new figures show 231 people experiencing homelessness in Scotland died in 2024.
We can't end homelessness without social homes. The next parliament must deliver 15,693+ new social homes each year to tackle the housing emergency.
📣 Dundee City Council has declared a #HousingEmergency, recognising what people already know: their housing system isn’t working.
We look forward to working alongside the council to tackle homelessness and fix the broken and biased housing system across Dundee.
ℹ️ shelterscotland.org/DCCHE
Dundee has formally declared a housing emergency, with councillors, campaigners and frontline organisations warning that the city’s housing system is now failing many of its residents.
Getting a job is a huge milestone for many refugees, yet often it’s out of reach.
Scotland can change this. The next Scottish Government must ensure refugees can use their skills by removing barriers, improving skills recognition and opening up pathways.
Find out more: https://ow.ly/tzRT50YnVz3
We have two opportunities to join our Board as Trustees.
If you have experience in public affairs, social policy, anti-racism or fundraising in Scotland, and you want to help end the housing emergency, we want to hear from you.
Apply now. Closing date: 6 April 2026.
📝 shelterscotland.org/HR03Mar
News this morning suggests Dundee City Council may declare a #HousingEmergency later today. We'll be watching closely, but this could be the news people of Dundee have been waiting for, and the outcome the Dundee Coalition has been fighting for.
More info 👉 shelterscotland.org/DHEDTC
Want to make rent more affordable again?
More social housing means less pressure on the private rented sector. Lower demand = lower rents.
Tell our politicians to build social homes to combat the #HousingEmergency.
👉 shelterscotland.org/GetBuilding
A background photo of Dundee City, with text saying "Dundee City Council must declare a housing emergency, yours sincerely" - and then a collection of over a dozen logos for various organisations and charities that signed an open letter, urging Dundee City Council to make the declaration.
📣 Live in Dundee? Your voice matters.
Over a dozen housing, homelessness and social justice organisations have urged Dundee City Council to declare a #HousingEmergency. Now it’s over to local people.
Email your councillors today 👇
shelterscotland.org/DundeeEmail
A 38% annual rise in breaches of the Unsuitable Accommodation Order in Dundee shows in stark terms how the system is failing people.
We’ve joined Dundee's Housing Emergency Coalition to urge councillors to declare a #HousingEmergency and take action now. Read the coalition letter: buff.ly/pCvC3PQ
All social landlords have a responsibility to reflect the communities we serve. CIH's new EDI campaign ‘Equality in Housing’ is a call to action to embed diversity in recruitment, amplify underrepresented voices, and create communities where everyone belongs.
Find out more: buff.ly/VEliXSW
The Poverty Alliance backs the call for Dundee City Council to declare a housing emergency. Against a landscape photo of Dundee.
There is no doubt that #Dundee is going through a local housing emergency. That's why we joined a coalition of 16 organisations pushing for the council to make a formal declaration. Openly acknowleding a problem is the first step to dealing with it.
scotland.shelter.org.uk/media/press_...
Any number of children without a home in Scotland is too many, but this number has increased nearly every year since 2014 and we're now at a record high 10,480.
We cannot accept this as the new normal. Add your name if you agree and together, let's say enough is enough!
👉 shelterscotland.org/ActCH
If you live in Dundee, don't sit back and wait for politicians to step up – join the call and demand Dundee City councillors support the declaration of a housing emergency and adopt the housing emergency action plan.
🔗 shelterscotland.org/DundeeEmail
🚨🏠 People in Dundee are being failed.
We stand with 15 other frontline housing, homelessness and social justice orgs urging Dundee City Council to declare a #HousingEmergency and adopt the community-led Housing Emergency Action Plan (HEAP).
✉️ Open Letter: shelterscotland.org/DundeeOLPR
15 organisations join forces to demand Dundee declares a housing emergency
We support @shelterscotland.bsky.social call urging Dundee City Council to declare a #HousingEmergency.
Some of our Gran Squad is in Glasgow today and they want to speak to people about the #HousingEmergency and how it impacts them. If you're nearby, our Gran would love a chat.
📍 Find us at the Concert Hall steps, outside Buchanan Galleries
PS. We have shelter from the rain if that tempts you 😜
🚫🏠 With demand exceeding supply since 2021, this has been a lost parliament for our nation's housing needs.
If we're serious about tackling the #HousingEmergency, Scotland's next parliament must deliver at least 15,693 social homes each year.
Sign if you agree.
✍️ shelterscotland.org/Act
Awaab’s Law is vital for safer homes in Scotland, but current proposals risk excluding some temporary accommodation.
People can be stuck in unsafe “temporary” homes for years so it's important that Awaab's Law ensures everyone deserves the right to safe housing.
📖 shelterscotland.org/AwaabBriefing
How do we confront systemic racism in housing?
Our own @gmacrae.bsky.social is joined by Dr Nadia Ayed on the latest @scottishhousingnews.com podcast where they explore the issues driving it, ways to combat it, and what an anti-racist approach to housing looks like.
🔗 shelterscotland.org/SHN78TS
Picture of an outstretched hand with an envelope. The Scottish Anti-Poverty Newsletter! Out now!
📖 Weekend reading!
How can our next MSPs reduce the injustice of poverty? How can we reduce in-work poverty in social care? Details of member meetings and member events.
It´s all in the Scottish Anti-Poverty Newsletter.
www.povertyalliance.org/scottish-ant...
A simple graphic saying "The Housing System Is Broken" with the word broken visually looking split up and splintered. Underneath is a banner saying "Demand Change" along with a call to action, to sign your name to be part of it.
With a broken housing system, it’s people who pay the price.
💔 Children trapped in temporary accommodation.
💔 Families stuck in unsuitable accommodation.
💔 People priced out of their communities.
Add your name to demand the social housing Scotland needs #HousingEmergency
👉 shelterscotland.org/Act
Scotland’s #HousingEmergency has been driven by decades of underinvestment.
Add your name today to demand the social homes Scotland needs, and help end it.
✍️ shelterscotland.org/Act
5️⃣ What would you say to the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and decision makers?
