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Thank you Keir Starmer for recognising in your speech people at risk of homelessness, including survivors of domestic abuse & people leaving care. Delivering 90,000 social homes, & support to keep a home, is vital to growing our economy & govt's promise to help end homelessness.

Our chief executive Matt Downie said: "The Scottish Government has made tackling child poverty its number one priority, but this can’t be achieved without stronger action on housing" dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/…

"Whether the knowledge that there are now more than 16,000 homeless children in Scotland moves you to anger or to sadness, it’s clear we must act" - Our chief executive Matt Downie writes for The Scotsman on the solutions to ending homelessness scotsman.com/news/opinion/t…

Pleased to speak at the launch of this today to talk about homelessness and temporary accommodation in particular, covering Francesca Albanese's excellent article on this in the Review. As ever, the Review is critical reading for housing experts or anyone interested in housing 👇🏽

Very excited to be chairing the Housing Studies Association autumn lecture. It combines my two passions of research & homelessness policy ☺️ to achieve positive change. A hugely brilliant line up of speakers with experience across academia, government and practice. Please share & sign up 👇

New investigation by me for @Prospect_UK with @PaperDispatch reveals that families are ‘forgotten’ in temporary accommodation for years – even decades. prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/housin…

No child should be forced to grow up in a B&B - we need to act now to take pressure off the homelessness system. That means building more social homes, and it means pushing on with plans to prevent homelessness from happening in the first place dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-…

The Housing, Communities & Local Government Committee inquiry into children living in TA is a timely intervention to tackle a v. urgent issue. Really welcome giving evidence this am for Crisis on the ⬆️ costs, impact on ppls lives & the sig. opportunity for joined up solutions via cross gov homelessness strategy

New figures show an estimated 242 people died while experiencing homelessness in Scotland last year. This can't go on - it's time to act to prevent homelessness from happening in the first place. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Some very welcome news in yesterday's Scottish #budget especially on new funding to test how homelessness #prevention can be implemented & work in practice. Great blog summarising the key announcements from Crisis Scotland's Rhuaraidh Fleming 👇

Chris and Jonny will play a special show for Crisis in London on Tuesday (10 December). A prize draw for the tickets is open now to UK residents at cldp.ly/hackneychurch The prize draw will close at 12 noon (GMT) on Monday, 9 December. The randomly-selected winners be

🚨Exciting news! On Tuesday evening (10 December), Coldplay’s Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland will play a special, one-off show at Hackney Church in London, to raise funds for Crisis. Tickets are available in a prize draw (open now to UK residents): cldp.ly/hackneychurch

This morning our CEO Matt Downie appeared on BBC Breakfast. He discussed the Govt's welcome plan to invest £1bn in tackling homelessness and how this would be most effective if it were used to prevent homelessness from happening rather than on short term temporary solutions.

Hear from Matt Downie in National Housing Federation on why and how government can bring together their ambitions on housing and homelessness in England. We can't end homelessness without homes 👇

Today we were delighted to be joined by some famous faces as our Christmas hotel services opened in London today. Joe Wicks, Joe Wicks, actor, Sam Phillips, and singer-songwriter, Ellie Goulding, helped open our doors to people experiencing homelessness.

👏How the Herald's housing emergency series helped make a difference - we were delighted to support the Herald in launching its charter for change, with 7 key steps to ending homelessness in Scotland heraldscotland.com/news/24806260.…

Very pleased to see this. Yes we want to see systemic reform, but this is also about helping people facing freezing temperatures now. Thanks to Rushanara Ali MP 💙 and officials who made this happen.

If you are heading to Labour conference this weekend in Scotland do come & join our Crisis Scotland fringe on how to address the housing emergency ⤵️

NEW: Speaking at the Crisis Homelessness Summit, the Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham says that of the 1.5 million homes the Labour govt has promised to build in this parliament, 500,000 should be social homes. So far the govt has NOT committed to a specific number

🧵On Tuesday, we came together at Crisis’ Homelessness Summit to push for real solutions to end homelessness in the UK. With a new government strategy on the horizon, the time for action is now. Here’s what happened. ⬇️