Working together to rebuild lives

Positive Action in Housing is a Glasgow-based, Scotland-wide, independent, Black & Minority Ethnic led, antiracist homelessness and human rights charity (Scottish charity reg SCO27577) dedicated to supporting people from refugee and immigrant communities in rebuilding their lives.

The Hague is known as the global hub of international law and arbitration. The International Court of Justice, the main judicial arm of the United Nations, is based in the city, as is the International Criminal Court & 200 other governmental organisations.

People seeking asylum are living on £1.40 a day. Will you help?

Our Refugee Appeal is raising funds to provide humanitarian assistance to refugee families, children, babies, lone women and men — including torture survivors and those fleeing wars and persecution — who are forced to live without n extreme poverty here in the UK.

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Our impact


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children, women and men

from 4,038 BME, refugee, asylum seeking and immigrant households from ninety-four countries of origin to overcome crises and rebuild their lives by providing housing and social welfare advice, rights information, casework, and direct humanitarian support in the form of emergency provisions and shelter


Read Hashem and Sama ’s story


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Families and individuals were helped to resettle

Aided by sessional workers and volunteers, the Housing & Homelessness Team received over 2,500 requests for crisis support and homelessness assistance via our Homelessness Helpline and email enquiries (a 25% increase on the previous year). It provided detailed advice, information, and casework representation to 1,082 households needing housing or homelessness assistance, representing an 11% increase compared to the previous financial year.


Read Zahra and her family’s story


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children, women and men sheltered through our pioneering Room for Refugees Network

524 households from 40 countries incl. Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Ukraine. Providing 149,736 placement nights of shelter, saving the UK and Scottish governments £15M in housing costs.


Read Aileen and Kseniia’s story

What we do

By empowering people with information, advice and targeted practical support we enable individuals to achieve independence. Through proactive casework, we challenge unfair decisions and processes that make people’s lives harder. 

Housing and homelessness

The Housing & Homelessness Team runs four distinct projects designed to assist BME communities, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers

Emergency Relief Fund

The Emergency Relief Fund directly responds to the growing demand for a rapid humanitarian response in times of crisis. It helps those who are facing severe hardship due to poverty or homelessness. Donations from people like you make this possible.

Lifeline Destitution Service

Crisis intervention for destitute or insecurely housed people fleeing war and persecution providing beneficiaries with breathing space to overcome a crisis and rebuild their lives quickly.

Room for Refugees

The Room for Refugees Network helps men, women and children who are fleeing for their lives to rebuild their lives.

Winter Refugee Crisis Appeal

Raising vital funds to provide humanitarian aid to refugee and asylum-seeking families and individuals — including torture survivors and those fleeing wars and persecution — who are facing destitution and homelessness across Scotland this winter.

Money Skills Project

The Money Skills Project provides people from BME, refugee and migrant communities with one-to-one money, debt advice/representation, and workshops to reduce fuel poverty and improve financial stability.

Room for Refugees enables those moved by compassion and a sense of justice to offer shelter to someone in need.

Find out more

Positive Action in Housing pioneered refugee hosting in in 2002. We run the Room for Refugees Network — the UK's oldest established refugee hosting programme.

We have 20 years of expertise in responding in a refugee crisis. To date we have sheltered over 5,000 refugees. We have 20,000 fully registered hosts. Over 500 refugee, emergency and homelessness organisations, including the British Red Cross, all Refugee Councils, Freedom from Torture, Migrants Organise, The Passage refer their clients to us, and we process hostings on our online platform. We have hosts in every part of the U.K.

During the time I’ve worked in Glasgow covering social issues, Positive Action in Housing has been a constant presence and an extremely useful one. I admire this charity because it is no respecter of institution or status where injustice needs to be tackled. I think it is worth thinking about how unusual that is – journalistically, I encounter people all the time who would like to speak out but don’t – due to concern over offending funders or alienating those in political power.

Stephen Naysmith, former Social Affairs Correspondent, The Herald

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