News April 2026
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24 April 2026
What Does the Government Want Palestinian Refugees to Do. Send Shrouds for Their Children?
Comment by Robina Qureshi regarding the "bureaucratic trap" that is blocking the families of recognised Palestinian refugees in the UK from ever leaving Gaza
24 April 2026
Scotland’s Highest Civil Court intervenes to stop Home Office extinguishing Gaza family’s hopes of being reunited
The Court of Session has intervened to stop the Home Office extinguishing a Gaza family reunion claim after a Palestinian mother and child were approved in principle to join their refugee husband and father in the UK, but trapped by impossible biometric rules. Lord Braid ordered the Home Office to preserve the original applications, extend time, and prevent the family from losing their place under harsher new immigration rules. It is an important legal development that could affect other Palestinian families caught in the same bureaucratic trap.
17 April 2026
Safe Deposits grant strengthens our migrant rights work in Govanhill, preventing homelessness and supporting Roma communities
Positive Action in Housing is delighted to announce that we have received a grant of £22,335 from the Safe Deposits Scotland Charitable Trust towards our Migrant Rights Project.
5 April 2026
Blaming refugees will not provide a single new home, but a specific, costed strategy will
In the run up to the Scottish elections, Reform UK is again falsely blaming refugees for Glasgow’s housing crisis.
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.
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