Does Glasgow City Council have the resources to fully replace temporary accommodation service cuts with its Housing First programme?

Living Rent call on housing associations to put pressure on Home Office contractors to prevent the evictions

Serco evictions planned for this Friday.

WITH Serco expected to begin the lock change evictions this Friday the 12th July, CommonSpace caught up with Living Rent campaigners to talk about the work being done on the 'No Evictions' Campaign.

Graham O’Neill, Policy Manager at the Scottish Refugee Council, says the campaign in Glasgow against Serco’s planned eviction of hundreds of asylum seekers has a significance way beyond the city – it’s an important defence of the human rights of the most vulnerable people everywhere

The CommonSpace Show takes on Scotland’s biggest stories

IN THE second episode of the CommonSpace Show, David and Rhiannon speak to Sonja Coquelin from the Living Rent Tenants' Union about what the union does and its campaigning in recent weeks against Serco's attempt to lock out 300 asylum seekers from their home. They also discuss the 20th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament.

Solicitors from the Legal Services Agency have obtained interim interdict orders, which will temporarily prevent the eviction of several asylum seekers

Common Weal submits a consultation response to the Scottish Government.

As part of CommonSpace’s special week of coverage on refugees and asylum seekers, Mark Stern looks at the complicated system of responsibilities that is meant to ensure the housing rights of asylum seekers and refugees in Glasgow but is instead forcing families toward destitution

Wightman, who has campaigned for short-term lets regulation since entering the Scottish Parliament in 2016, said the debate had been “bedevilled by misinformation”