News - Positive Action in Housing

4 December 2025

Farage’s racially coded attacks have no place in a civilised society

Robina Qureshi comments on the importance of holding the line against racism.

4 December 2025

Standing With Glasgow’s Multilingual Children Against Farage’s Bigotry

Responding to Nigel Farage’s claim that Glasgow’s multilingual pupils are “not diversity” and instead represent the “cultural smashing” of the city, Robina Qureshi, CEO, has condemned his targeting of Glasgow's schoolchildren.

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.

2 November 2025

Turning a house into a home - the story of a transformation - Part One

Lina, a 30-year-old Palestinian refugee and PhD student in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response, has just received a housing association flat in Glasgow through Wheatley Homes. She’s finally beginning to build a home for herself and her two young daughters after months of living in temporary accommodation.

30 October 2025

Moral Leadership Matters

False claims about refugees are spreading unchecked. Moral clarity and leadership are an effective pushback against the fear and division now shaping public debate.

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.

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.