Home Safe
We believe everyone should have the right to open and close their own front door and feel safe and secure in their own accommodation. Sadly for many people this isn’t the case.
Our Home Safe strategy
- Undertake a comprehensive review of the full range of accommodation options that are available to individuals and couples experiencing homelessness, to include the scale, scope and quality of services across the country. Use the findings of this review to make recommendations for the future development of accommodation services
- Drive the scaling up of high fidelity Housing First as a solution for people facing multiple disadvantage for whom traditional models don’t work
- Working with partners, support the development of data-informed housing and homelessness strategies at both a local and national level, which tackle rough sleeping and other forms of homelessness, including hidden homelessness
- Strengthen links and explore partnerships with relevant housing and funding/investment organisations in order to increase the availability of high quality, affordable accommodation for people experiencing homelessness
- Campaign to secure positive progress on the need for adequate and long term secure funding for supported housing in all its forms, as part of a comprehensive welfare safety net
Forthcoming events on accommodation
These are some of our forthcoming training and events on accommodation:
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Improving nutrition among people experiencing homelessness
Join Homeless Link and Providence Row as we launch research that aims to enhance nutrition and recovery among people experiencing homelessness and share practical actions that homelessness staff can take to improve access to healthy food and nutrition for the people they support.
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Frontline Practice Forum: drug and alcohol use in supported housing
Join our new Practice Forum for frontline workers in supported housing services. This first session will focus on supporting people who use drug and alcohol in supported housing.
Latest resources published on accommodation
These are the latest Homeless Link publications on accommodation:
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Preventing evictions and abandonment
Updated: 02/7/25
Practical guidance for people working in supported accommodation settings to prevent evictions and abandonments.
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Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act consultation: Homeless Link response
Updated: 21/5/25
Homeless Link's response to Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act consultation
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Improving nutrition among people experiencing homelessness
Updated: 08/5/25
Animations and a research report to help services and staff improve nutrition among people experiencing homelessness and using substances.
Latest news on accommodation
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Using In-form to understand the relationship between health and homelessness
Cate Standing-Tattersall from the Homeless Link Research Team tells us about a groundbreaking new research project and how your service can be part of it.
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Number of people in temporary accommodation continues to break records
Homeless Link responds to the government's latest statutory homelessness statistics for January to March 2025.
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Study: effectiveness of AI-powered wrist-worn device to detect early overdose signs
Chris Rintoul, Head of Harm Reduction at Cranstoun writes about an ongoing feasibility study they have funded, looking at the effectiveness of a Wearable Overdose Detection Device and Alert System to detect early signs of overdose.