Gordon MacRae

please fact check - local connection has NOTHING to do with where refugees can apply as homeless. That is misinformation that has been challenged repeatedly but still goes unchecked. scotland.shelter.org.uk/professional_r…

@ProfJMitchell @CllrSMcCabe theguardian.com/money/2015/jun… Generally giving money to first time buyers increases house prices.

Goes further back. 2007 SNP manifesto. Like the French Bourbon dynasty, they 'have learned nothing and forgotten nothing'.

New homelessness stats out today!🚨‼️ Since 2021 ⬆️Homelessness has gone up 18% ⬆️Rough sleeping more than doubled ⬆️Kids in temp up 26% ⬆️Households in temp up 27% ⬇️These stats come just after social housing starts fell to a 30year low.

New figures from @Shelter show that the number of children homeless or in temporary accommodation in England has reached its highest level since records began. 172,420 kids without a permanent home of their own- an 8% increase in a single year.

@EndPovEdin Thanks to Linda Craik who has been a vocal supporter of our call for a BETTER Scotland. Hear more from Linda at the march for all of us on Saturday 25th October in Edinburgh. #WeDemandBetter

@Dennynews @GlasgowCC @ScotGovFairer Instead of political blame games, Scot Gov can increase funding to local authorities in line with the level of demand for homelessness services. UK Government can stop making refugees homeless and help them find a home before leaving asylum processing accm.

@Dennynews @GlasgowCC Whilst Scotland has seen a 1% drop in homeless applications, Glasgow has seen a 9% increase - driven mainly by UK nationals. Glasgow consistently receives around 20% of homeless applications, only going down when others round up differently.

The UK Home Office has been accused of "letting Glasgow down" by relying too much on the city to house asylum seekers without adequate funding in place. dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/…

The true face of the UK's housing emergency. This might be Liverpool, but it could be Glasgow or any other major city. Great to see @shelter expert by experience share her story. If politicians choose not to fix it, the hate peddlers will fill the gap. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Glad to see this corrected

This briefing from Shelter Scotland sets out the true details of how Scottish homelessness legislation interacts with refugees and asylum processes. scotland.shelter.org.uk/professional_r…

Shameful not heartbreaking. Heartbreaking is when something unexpected happens. This is entirely predictable and preventable. Past UK governments have chosen homelessness deaths as a price worth paying to keep a broken and biased housing system. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Tell politicians... act.scotland.shelter.org.uk/email-scotland…

Qs for Cab Sec - does she agree that if she doesn’t deliver 15k affordable homes then homelessness will rise? If so will councils get more cash to cope? How much of the promised £4.9 bn is gov money? If its 50/50 public private then is this a cut? #gms

scotland.shelter.org.uk/professional_r… read the exec summary here.

@iainmacwhirter Or is it perhaps a long standing failure to plan for the housing needs of the city going back years? theferret.scot/shelter-legal-…

Susan Aitken has threatened to “pause” the dispersal of refugees to Glasgow. They’re the wrong kind of asylum seekers. It’s all Westminster’s fault. It isn’t. The city’s homelessness crisis is a direct result of SNP policy and Glasgow’s self-styled image as a “migrant magnet”

If you want to know the true state of poverty and inequality in Scotland don't look at the press releases look at the impact assessments! Stark evidence of stagnation rather than transformation - gov.scot/publications/s…