However, we desperately need the Government to set out exactly how they are going to address the housing emergency to ensure that: • The quality and disrepair of housing for both private and social tenants is improved; • Proposed legislation around rent control and homelessness prevention is adequately funded and resourced; and • Already unaffordable rent costs are reduced. [...] Available at: Tipping the scales: The social and economic harm of poverty in Scotland | IPPR 3 Poverty Alliance (2023) Participation of people with experience of poverty in the Just Transition Plan for the Built Environment. [...] Available at: Participation of people with experience of poverty in the Just Transition Plan for the Built Environment - The Poverty Alliance 8 Marie Curie Scotland (2024) Response to Scottish Parliament Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee’s Housing (Scotland) Bill Call for Views. [...] Yet, housing is a right that we all have, as outlined in several key international human rights conventions including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). [...] This showcases the critical work of the Citizens Advice Bureaus - and other advice and advocacy services - in helping people to understand and uphold their rights through, for example, understanding tenancy paperwork, contacting unresponsive landlords about repairs and helping people to prepare for housing tribunals.
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Table of Contents
- Challenge Poverty Week 2024 Policy Briefing 1 A Scotland where we all have safe secure and sustainable homes 2
- Introduction 2
- What are we calling for 2
- What is Challenge Poverty Week 2
- Challenge Poverty Week 2024 Policy Briefing 1 A Scotland where we all have safe secure and sustainable homes 3
- How do we get there 3
- Adequately fund the delivery of new social homes through the Affordable Housing Supply Programme and ensure existing social homes are well- maintained and suitably adapted to meet peoples needs. 3
- Challenge Poverty Week 2024 Policy Briefing 1 A Scotland where we all have safe secure and sustainable homes 4
- Challenge Poverty Week 2024 Policy Briefing 1 A Scotland where we all have safe secure and sustainable homes 5
- Challenge Poverty Week 2024 Policy Briefing 1 A Scotland where we all have safe secure and sustainable homes 6
- Ensure all tenants are aware of and can exercise their rights by making advocacy services fully available and accessible. 6
- Challenge Poverty Week 2024 Policy Briefing 1 A Scotland where we all have safe secure and sustainable homes 7
- Challenge Poverty Week 2024 Policy Briefing 1 A Scotland where we all have safe secure and sustainable homes 8
- The increase in energy costs means I had to cut back on food often go for weeks with no food. Its making me unwell. 8
- Challenge Poverty Week 2024 Policy Briefing 1 A Scotland where we all have safe secure and sustainable homes 9
- Challenge Poverty Week 2024 Policy Briefing 1 A Scotland where we all have safe secure and sustainable homes 10
- Developing our policy asks 10
- Challenge Poverty Week 2024 Policy Briefing 1 A Scotland where we all have safe secure and sustainable homes 11
- How will this help Scotland to meet our child poverty targets 11
- Bright Start Bright Futures 11
- For more information please contact Policy and Campaigns Manager ruth.boylepovertyalliance.org 11
- Policy and Parliamentary Officer chloe.campbellpovertyalliance.org 11
