Housing and homelessness

Emergency Homelessness in Glasgow

Are you a refused asylum seeker? Are you destitute in Glasgow with no recourse to public funds? Are you helping someone in this situation? Then here are some tips on what to do.

Appointment Clinics and Outreach Surgeries

Free, independent and multilingual advice and information for people from BME, refugee and migrant communities.

Problems with your accommodation?

What to do

Home office guidance on living in asylum accommodation

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Home Office guide for asylum seekers staying in temporary accommodation while their claim for asylum is assessed.

Hate crime reporting 

Hate incidents are any events where you or another person perceive the event to be motivated by prejudice towards a particular group who are protected from such prejudice being directed at them.

Housing rights and options

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The Housing Rights website gives recent arrivals up-to-date information about people's rights when looking for a home, based on your immigration status.

How to sue the Home Office

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The Home Office often makes mistakes when exercising its immigration powers. The high appeal success rates bear testimony to this: as many as 50% of some categories of appeal are allowed. However, there are only some limited circumstances where it is possible to extract compensation from the Home Office by means of a court case.