News - Positive Action in Housing

19 October 2016

Formal planning objection by Positive Action in Housing to the Erection of Aurora short term immigration holding facility

This was one of our most successful campaigns. Here is the formal objection to the building of a 20-bedroom short-term holding centre at Glasgow Airport to replace Dungavel Removal Centre which was announced to close.

19 June 2016

After the death of Jo Cox: racist rhetoric has deadly consequences

Politicians and certain sections of the media have created a toxic racist environment - and must be held responsible for the hatred they incite.

30 March 2016

Syrian Refugees

Many areas of Scotland have now started accepting refugees being resettled under the Syrian Vulnerable Person Resettlement (VPR) Programme. A co-ordinated response between the DWP, local authorities, Scottish Government, housing providers and other key partners has been put into place so that there should not be any delays in those…

21 February 2016

‘I have met some nice people I am still friends with, and it makes you feel good doing something for other people’

Scotland took pride in offering a home to a disproportionate number of refugees when the UK Government agreed to house 1,000 of those fleeing from the Syrian crisis at the end of last year. However, away from the spotlight of those forced to flee the fighting in the Middle East, a…

14 February 2016

The Scots taking refugees into their homes and their hearts

Sunday Herald, February 14, 2016 Scotland took pride in offering a home to a disproportionate number of refugees when the UK Government agreed to house 1,000 of those fleeing from the Syrian crisis at the end of last year. However, away from the spotlight of those forced to flee the fighting in the…

10 January 2016

Together Against Prevent

We are a signatory to the ‘Together Against Prevent’ statement that says: We recognise and condemn the damage that Prevent’s “spot the potential terrorist” approach has made primarily in stigmatising and criminalising entire Muslim communities, but also to a growing number of political activists…

11 December 2015

Room for Refugees U.K. Western Europe and the U.S. – Refugee Hosting Scheme

Room for Refugees is one of those ideas that makes the world a better place. It brings people together, those who need to find a home when they have lost all else, with generous individuals who want to share their home. The concept was pioneered by Positive Action in…

8 November 2015

Notes on a Scandal – the Eric Kempson Transcript – 4 November 2015

Powerful testimony from Eric Kempson about the extent of suffering in Lesvos, what exactly the aid agencies are not doing with the donations they have collected from the public on the back of the Lesvos Refugee Crisis, and testimony about abuses of refugee boats by the Turkish coastguard.…

5 September 2015

UK wide refugee hosting scheme – national database

Positive Action in Housing’s refugee hosting scheme has gone viral and UK wide, Scotland, England and Northern Ireland… We have hundreds of volunteers signing up to our refugee hosting scheme, hundreds signed in the last 12 hours and growing. This builds our capacity considerably and…

27 August 2015

Europe’s Refugee Crisis Breaks Into Human Conscience

A poultry van on an Austrian motorway came to represent one of the deadliest moments of Europe’s 2015 refugee crisis, as the discovery of 71 suffocated Syrian refugees forced the news media to confront both the scale of the horror and the language it used to describe it. Robina Qureshi writes