News - Positive Action in Housing

8 April 2024

A letter from Cairo

Last month, we asked our supporters to help the family of one of our service users, Dr Hashem Salim, a Palestinian living in the UK. Your support led to us helping ten members of Hashem’s family to leave Gaza and enter Egypt. Here below is a letter from Hashem’s mother, to everyone who supported the family, shortly after she arrived in Cairo.

28 March 2024

Breaking: We saved lives today!

With the help of our members and supporters, several members of 29 year old Dr Hashem’s family, including children and young people, have been permitted to leave Gaza and are right now on their way to Cairo. Help us help them to find safe accommodation.

28 March 2024

Concerns for mental health of people in hotels grows

We recently spoke to The Ferret about the growing mental health crisis that we are seeing in institutionalised accommodation across Scotland.

7 March 2024

Peers support crucial amendments to Rwanda Bill

The House of Lords have this week passed multiple amendments against the doomed Rwanda plan, calling for more accountability and better protections for people seeking asylum.

1 March 2024

Fatal Channel tragedy as Home Office pushes forward with Rwanda Plan

This week, one person has died and a further two are missing after attempting to seek asylum in the UK. The Home Office has been warned, time and time again, of the impacts of increasingly hostile policies and yet still, they pursue the failed, unworkable and inhumane Rwanda plan.

24 February 2024

Urgent appeal to help Palestinian family evacuate from Gaza

As the situation in Gaza deteriorates further, with images of starved babies being shared across media platforms worldwide, we are calling on our supporters to donate to this urgent appeal to assist Hashem, a Palestinian doctor supported by Positive Action in Housing since March 2023, to evacuate his mother, Iman, sister and extended family from Gaza, Palestine.

16 February 2024

35,000 international students wrongly stripped of visa

One decade after an IT error led to a Home Office decision of mass student visa termination, thousands of people are fighting for justice.

8 February 2024

Overcrowding Onboard the Bibby Stockholm

The move towards the use of former military barracks, airforce bases, and prison-like barges as asylum accommodation has been condemned widely across the UK by third sector organisations, local communities, and local councils alike.

8 February 2024

Immigration Health Surcharge Increased By 66%

The Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS) was introduced in April 2015 with the stated aim of raising funds for the NHS from migrants. Initially, the surcharge annual rate was set at £200. Since it was introduced, the standard IHS rate has risen to £1035.

1 February 2024

Glasgow Kiltwalk 2024

Join Positive Action in Housing for this year's Glasgow Kiltwalk!