Crisis in Scotland

Our Edinburgh Skylight Centre provides housing led coaching, empowering people to move sustainably out of homelessness.

We work across Scotland through our Best Practice team, identifying, testing and promoting ways of ending homelessness and providing expertise, advice and support to partners to help make that happen.

We also campaign for the changes need to end homelessness in Scotland altogether. In our 50th year we produced a Plan to End homelessness, with our then Chief Executive Jon Sparkes chairing the Scottish Government’s Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Group. This work led to the Scottish Government and COSLA publishing their plan to end homelessness, the first of its kind across Great Britain.

We know that the best way to end homelessness is to prevent it from happening in the first place. That’s why Crisis convened the Prevention Review Group, made up of experts from local government, academia and homelessness services, to set out recommendations on what action can be taken to stop people from losing their homes. The Scottish Government plan on introducing legislation based on these recommendations. These changes to the law represent the biggest change to the homelessness system in a generation and hold the potential to make Scotland a world leader in ending homelessness.