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This general election is about our fight for home

The general election on 4 July is your chance to demand change.

Let’s make it clear to all political parties and candidates: ending the housing emergency in Scotland must be their top priority.

Email your local candidates today and tell them to act.

Our call for urgent action

Across Scotland, this housing emergency is tearing apart lives and communities. Right now, 10,000 children have no place to call home. Half the country lives in an area where local homelessness services are overwhelmed. Private rents are spiralling out of control.

This emergency demands immediate, decisive action from every level of government – including Westminster.

The next UK government have choices to make that will have implications for housing in Scotland for decades to come. Candidates must accept that there is a housing emergency in Scotland and commit to ending it.

What is the housing emergency?

  • 15,625 households in temporary accommodation.
    (Homelessness in Scotland: update to 30 September 2023)

  • 9,860 children in temporary accommodation.
    (Homelessness in Scotland: update to 30 September 2023)

  • 45 children become homeless everyday in Scotland.
    (Scottish Government (2023) Homelessness in Scotland: 2022-23)

Email your local candidates today and demand they accept there is a housing emergency in Scotland.

Email your general election candidates

What we’re demanding from the next UK government

It's time for a fairer housing system for all.

We are calling on candidates from all parties to accept there is a housing emergency in Scotland and commit to doing what they can to tackle it.

We're calling for:

  • realigning benefits and housing costs

  • an anti-racist approach to ending the housing emergency

  • public investment in homes and services

Find out more about what we're asking for.