Homeless in Glasgow?
Some useful resources for people from refugee, asylum seeking backgrounds.
Advice and Representation
To get advice or information about accessing social housing or finding out your housing options, or if you have just received a positive asylum decision, fill in this self-referral form.
If we can help, we will contact you by phone or email to discuss your situation or make an appointment for you to see someone. Or we may signpost you to other resources. Organisations helping their service users see note below*
Alternatively, call our Homeless helpline on: 0141 846 7179 during office hours, excluding bank holidays and weekends.
See also our online network of charities and community groups.
For information about outreach surgeries, and self help briefings, visit this page.
Here is a leaflet about other resources for destitute people in Glasgow.
*If you are an organisation referring clients to Positive Action in Housing, please guide your service user to this page, and help them to fill in the self referral form.
Refugees or people with leave to remain
Contact Glasgow City Council Out-of-Hours Homelessness Service - if you are homeless and need help after 4:45 p.m. Monday-Thursday or after 3:55 p.m. on Fridays and weekends, call: 0800 838 502
Or call 0141 287 0555 during office hours for help and advice. See this page for more info
Request homelessness assistance for yourself - Glasgow City Council
Request homelessness assistance for someone else - Glasgow City Council
Go in person to one of the local community homelessness teams:
- North West casework team: 30 Mansion St, Possilpark, G22 5SZ, 0141 276 6168
- North East casework team: 1250 Westerhouse Rd, Easterhouse, G34 9EA, 0141 276 6153
- South casework team: Rowanpark Pavilion, 5 Ardlaw St, Govan G51 3RR, 0141 276 820
Note: Glasgow is experiencing a severe housing emergency. If you are thinking of moving to Glasgow, make sure you have somewhere to stay. Otherwise, you may be considered intentionally homeless, which could affect your eligibility for housing assistance. If you are offered permanent accommodation by the Council, do not refuse a reasonable offer without good reason. Refusing suitable accommodation could result in you being found intentionally homeless, which may limit the housing assistance the council is required to provide, and result in you being homeless. If you have a lawyer, speak to them about your situation.
Simon Community
Call the 24/7 Helpline on 0800 027 7466
Open to anyone regardless of their legal status
If you need somewhere to go, Simon Community offers an access hub 7 days a week 9am to 5pm (Wednesdays 10am start) at: 389 Argyle Street, Glasgow G5 0QW
More info: call 0141 552 4164.
Asylum seekers
If you are an asylum seeker and have nowhere to live, then call Migrant Help 24/7 on their free helpline on 0808 8010 503. Or contact their 24/7 webchat: Migrant Help Web Chat (timeforstorm.com)
Interactive Food Map: Free hot food in Glasgow
For free food across Glasgow, the Glasgow Community Food Network has produced this interactive map.
Glasgow City Mission
Open to anyone regardless of their legal status from December to March of each year
City Centre Project
20 Crimea Street
Glasgow G2 8PW
Phone: 0141 221 2630
Drop-in is open from Monday to Friday. Serving lunch from 1:00pm to 2:00pm and dinner from 6:30pm to 8:00pm. Our guests get hot nutritious food and our project workers can build trust and develop relationships in a relaxed environment.
Glasgow City Mission is committed to tackling rough sleeping. Building on the experience and expertise of running a winter project for the last 13 years we aim to make sure no one needs to sleep outside during the winter months December to March.
Each year we look at this issue afresh and adapt to the needs of our guests and the landscape in Glasgow.
The Crimea Street day-centre is open through the day, where we will serve dinner as usual from 6:30pm until 8:00pm, after which, our Overnight Welcome Centre (OWC) team will come on site.
Anyone who finds themselves in a crisis can come, or be referred by partners to the OWC, where our trained staff operate a safe, welcoming space.
We have no accommodation in Crimea Street, however, we are able to access an array of temporary accommodation across the city to ensure nobody needs to sleep rough.
After the OWC closes our Housing Settlement Officers follow up with guests who have accessed the service the night before, and develop a person-centred move-on plan for each individual.
Last updated 31 July 2026