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27 November 2025
Asylum changes will engineer one of the biggest humanitarian emergencies this country has ever seen
With the latest shake up of asylum and immigration policy, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is engineering one of the biggest humanitarian emergencies this country has seen in decades, and it will fall to civil society to clean up the carnage. Robina Qureshi writes.
10 February 2026
Scotland’s Housing Crisis Is Being Weaponised - Our Casework Tells a Different Story
In one month alone, Positive Action in Housing's casework team took up 126 housing crisis cases. The data exposes a system failing people already granted protection, and dismantles the dangerous myth that refugees or people seeking asylum are to blame for Scotland’s housing crisis.
10 February 2026
Reform UK criticised for making ‘false claims’ using “racially coded language”
Positive Action in Housing was quoted in The National today criticising Reform UK for making false and inflammatory claims about migrants being prioritised for social housing. Our CEO Robina Qureshi said the policy is a political distraction built on misinformation, designed to scapegoat people of colour and divide working-class communities rather than solve Scotland’s housing crisis.
21 January 2026
We back buffer zones to protect refugee families and individuals
After far right protests outside asylum accommodation in several Scottish cities, Positive Action in Housing is backing buffer zones to protect families and children where they live, as the Scottish Government considers new measures.
20 January 2026
Response to the Home Office’s Proposed Asylum and Returns Policy
Our response to the UK Government’s asylum and returns proposals explains why deterrence by design is not an asylum policy, and sets out what a workable, lawful system would look like instead.
11 January 2026
Home Office to end support for destitute asylum seekers and evict people from hotels.
The Home Office plans to withdraw support from destitute asylum seekers and evict people from asylum hotels in Spring. Details are sketchy.
31 December 2025
As the year ends
As we reach the end of an exceptionally challenging year, we want to thank you for your continued support, and reflect on the past year
6 December 2025
How Long Do We Stay Silent While Racism Passes for Respectable Discourse?
When racism targeting children is dressed up as “concern” and amplified by mainstream media, every one of us has a moral duty to speak up and call it out
6 December 2025
Why are broadcasters still legitimising Farage as a voice on immigrants?
As an anti-racist homelessness and human rights charity, we are asking broadcasters and Ofcom to justify why Nigel Farage is treated as a credible pundit on the very communities placed at risk by his words.
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