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20 March 2026
Eid Mubarak
Eid Mubarak to all our service users, members, supporters and funders, and everyone who supported us the past year with donations, volunteering, hosting, and messages of support. Wishing peace and justice upon the world.
14 March 2026
Op-ed: Put “Othering” back into the dustbin of history
Professor Henry Maitles, Emeritus Professor of Education, UWS, argues that the dehumanising logic once used to justify the Holocaust is resurfacing in Western responses to Gaza, Iran and asylum seekers, and warns that unequal moral outrage signals a dangerous return to “othering” that must be publicly challenged.
28 February 2026
Over 25,000 Migrant Workers Unite to Challenge Proposed Extension to UK Settlement Rules
Migrant workers across the UK are preparing legal action against proposed immigration changes that would double the qualifying period for settlement, arguing the reforms unfairly alter the terms under which they built their lives and families.
27 February 2026
High court: no duty to evacuate Gaza families - but ministers must decide individually
The High Court has confirmed there is no automatic legal duty to extract families from Gaza. Read that again. Yet for those already found eligible in principle to join relatives in the UK, the question is no longer about law but about whether ministers will exercise the discretion they retain.
21 February 2026
Refugees did not create the housing emergency, but a dangerous narrative is taking hold regardless
Decades of underinvestment, rising rents and shrinking social housing created this crisis. But as housing pressures grow, blame is being pushed onto the very people most harmed by the political failure.
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.
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