We provide direct support for people experiencing homelessness and influence policy to help end homelessness in Scotland.
We provide education, training and support for people experiencing homelessness, empowering them to move on from homelessness through our Edinburgh Skylight.
We work across Scotland through our Best Practice team, identifying, testing and promoting ways of ending homelessness and providing expertise, advice and support to partners to help make that happen.
We also campaign for the changes need to end homelessness in Scotland altogether. In our 50th year we produced a Plan to End homelessness, with our then Chief Executive Jon Sparkes chairing the Scottish Government’s Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Group. This work led to the Scottish Government and COSLA publishing their plan to end homelessness, the first of its kind across Great Britain.
We know that the best way to end homelessness is to prevent it from happening in the first place. That’s why Crisis convened the Prevention Review Group, made up of experts from local government, academia and homelessness services, to set out recommendations on what action can be taken to stop people from losing their homes. The Scottish Government plan on introducing legislation based on these recommendations. These changes to the law represent the biggest change to the homelessness system in a generation and hold the potential to make Scotland a world leader in ending homelessness.
Crisis Skylight Edinburgh works with people who are homeless and vulnerably housed. Our work is enhanced by a dedicated group of volunteers who help us at Christmas and all year round.
The Homelessness Monitor provides an independent analysis of the impact on homelessness of recent economic and policy developments across the UK.
The Scotland report monitors the impact on homelessness of the slow pace of economic recovery and the effects of welfare and housing reform and analyses key trends. It also highlights emerging trends and forecasts some of the likely changes.
Homelessness is complex. People can become homeless for lots of different reasons. The journey out of homelessness is complex too. Issues such as the availability of affordable housing, legislation and the benefits system can cause and affect homelessness.
In the homelessness knowledge hub you will find research about homelessness trends, the causes of homelessness and its impacts.
Our housing service breaks down the barriers homeless people face when finding a rented home by supporting social landlords and providing Renting Ready training for prospective tenants.
Email: edinburgh@crisis.org.uk | Telephone: 0131 209 7700
For media enquiries contact the Crisis Press Office call 020 7426 3880 or email media@crisis.org.uk.
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