News - Positive Action in Housing

21 July 2024

Home Sweet home from Glasgow

Home Sweet Home for 28-year-old Suliman, from Iraq who received a positive asylum decision recently after spending a year staying in a hotel provided by the Home Office asylum housing contractor Mears group. When he contacted us a few weeks ago, he lived in an empty flat.

25 October 2025

Thirty Years of Positive Action in Housing

For thirty years, we’ve stood with people whose rights were under attack. From Red Road to Kenmure Street, from Syria to Gaza, our work has always been more than charity. It’s solidarity — and in the face of rising hostility toward Muslim, migrants and minorities, that commitment matters more than ever.

17 September 2025

UN Commission: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza — States Must Act Now

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, according to the UN’s top investigative body on Palestine and Israel.

11 September 2025

Headlines that Blame Refugees Fuel the Far Right.

The Daily Record headline “Glasgow facing job losses and cuts to services over refugee homelessness crisis” frames refugees as the cause of job losses and cuts to services.

10 September 2025

Stop Blaming Refugees – The Real Crisis is Political Failure

We need to say it again. Refugees are not to blame for Glasgow’s housing emergency. The real crisis is racism, and political failure in the shape of decades of short-termism.

5 September 2025

Statement on Home Office decision to cut refugee support period to 28 days

The government has reversed its decision to extend the move-on period for newly recognised refugees. They’ll now have just 28 days to secure housing, work & support before eviction - putting many at risk of homelessness this winter. Costs will shift to councils like Glasgow, already in crisis. Refugees will be scapegoated for this gross political failure. Real solutions require building homes for everyone, including refugees.

4 September 2025

Refugee families abandoned as UK shuts down last safe route out of genocide

Today, Positive Action in Housing will try to submit last-minute family reunion applications by 3 pm for up to 75 Palestinian families trying to reunite with their loved ones in Gaza.

31 August 2025

No safe route out of genocide

Britain helped write the Refugee Convention, promising never again to abandon people fleeing persecution. Today, it does exactly that.

23 August 2025

UK’s Biometric Blockade on Palestinians Is Costing Lives

Positive Action in Housing, the refugee charity that founded the Room for Refugees programme — the UK’s longest-running hosting scheme, has warned that the UK Government is using visa biometrics as a bureaucratic weapon against Palestinians trapped in Gaza.

17 August 2025

Justice Demands Compassion: Why Lord Bracadale is Right

Lord Bracadale’s decision to extend compassion to the family of Sheku Bayoh honours a vital judicial tradition: humanity strengthens justice, it does not weaken it. At a time when the Police Federation threatens delay and obstruction, his stance affirms that dignity for the bereaved is not bias but the essence of fairness.