News - Positive Action in Housing

13 October 2023

NHS Doctor’s family trapped in North Gaza as UN warns of “devastating humanitarian consequences”

Hussain* is an asylum seeking Palestinian doctor working for the NHS. He is being supported by our Room for Refugees Network. His wife’s family and his mother and little sister are trapped in the North of Gaza and have been ordered to move 40 KM to the South.

12 October 2023

1,400 Refugee families in Glasgow To Be Made Homeless Within Weeks After Mass Asylum Decisions by Home Office

Charities are deeply concerned over the impending homelessness crisis in Glasgow faced by approximately 1,400 individuals expected to be granted asylum by the end of this year. We believe this is the same picture in towns and cities with significant asylum populations across the rest of the UK.

12 October 2023

Urgent Appeal

As well as refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and those here on humanitarian visas from Ukraine, we expect to assist more Palestinian refugees needing help to rebuild their lives in the coming months.

4 October 2023

Mass homelessness predicted amongst refugee communities

Charities across the UK are beginning to see the impact of a change in policy that cut move-on periods from 28 days to 7.

29 September 2023

Brook House inquiry condemns potential human rights abuses behind bars

Last week, after many years of investigation, a report into conditions at Brook House was released. It detailed the treatment of people seeking asylum there that potentially amounts to breaches of human rights laws, causing physical and mental harm to those detained.

15 September 2023

UK asylum system forces people into poverty

As we leave the summer months, it is likely that we will once again see the worst impacts of the cost-of-living crisis across the UK.

7 September 2023

Open Letter challenging changes to the move-on period

Recent shifts in policy have seen people who have secured refugee status facing severely reduced move-on periods, leaving them at risk of homelessness and destitution in the weeks after getting asylum.

26 August 2023

Family-owned business makes 10k donation to pioneering project sheltering refugees

Positive Action in Housing - whose pioneering project Room for Refugees rehomes displaced people - is being given )10,000 by one of the city's leading employers!

14 August 2023

More Channel drownings, incompetence, and bare-faced racism

THE latest tragedy in the English Channel underlines the need to urgently establish a system of viable, safe routes for refugees from countries like Syria, Iran, and Afghanistan. The tactics adopted by the Home Office are not stopping "the boats". A different approach is needed.

12 August 2023

Six refugees dead after boat capsizes crossing from France to UK

Six people died after a boat carrying refugees and asylum seekers heading to Britain sank in the English Channel, French maritime officials said, as a search continued to find those still missing.