News January 2025
30 January 2025
Positive Action in Housing secures grant towards work with Roma community in Govanhill
A Welcome Start to 2025 with a much needed grant from SafeDeposits Scotland towards our work with people from new migrant communities in Govanhill to improve their access to housing, jobs, and vital advice, while strengthening our mediation and support services.
27 January 2025
Two thirds of homeless children in temporary accommodation in Glasgow are from refugee households
The revelation in The Herald on Sunday (26 January) that two-thirds of homeless children in temporary accommodation in Glasgow are from refugee households reflects the devastating reality we see daily at Positive Action in Housing.
26 January 2025
Never again: why we must always remember the Holocaust
On this day, January 27, in 1945, the Red Army arrived at Auschwitz. Its horrors shocked even those battle-hardened troops, many of them veterans of Stalingrad. Auschwitz was the darkest moment of the 20th century, perhaps of world history.
6 January 2025
Young mum returned to home she fled after ‘nightmare’ emergency housing
A young mum fled a filthy hotel room with her 12-month-old baby after fearing for their safety. The 21-year-old mum had sought emergency housing in Glasgow after threats were made at the home she was living in. But after being faced with a night at McLay’s Guest House in Glasgow’s east end, she opted to go back to the “bad situation” she had escaped in the first place. Conditions were first raised by Positive Action in Housing, which had been lobbying for long-term housing to be found for the women and involved the Children's Commissioner for Scotland who described the conditions as "gravely concerning".
3 January 2025
Amnesty and Human rights organisations demand for Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh to be released from Sede Teiman
To the sound of global silence and media complicity, Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, sheltering hundreds of patients, doctors, and displaced individuals, came under attack by Israeli forces despite repeated warnings from renowned paediatrician Dr Hussam Abu Safiya. After more than 80 days of siege, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed the hospital, detaining Dr Abu Safiya.