{"id":348247,"date":"2025-08-16T04:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348247\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T04:13:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:13:22","slug":"charity-in-direct-action-to-get-homeless-into-accommodation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348247\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity in direct action to get homeless into accommodation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Colin McInnes, chair of Homeless Project Scotland, led the people into the offices in Merchant City<\/a> after he said they had been refused the right to make a homeless application.\n<\/p>\n

\n He said people are being told on a nightly basis that there is no accommodation and to stay overnight at the charity\u2019s shelter in Glassford Street.\n<\/p>\n

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\n They are then told to go in the morning to the Connect Hub to make an application.\n<\/p>\n

\n Mr McInnes said people are being left waiting for hours and no application is taken, leaving them to return to the shelter for a second night.\n<\/p>\n

\n He took six people to the offices and explained the situation to the staff.\n<\/p>\n

\n The staff took details of the people concerned, while the council’s head of homeless services, Jim McBride, attended a lengthy meeting with Mr McInnes.\n<\/p>\n

\n Mr McInnes said he was forced to take direct action to confront the failings in a system, leaving people with nowhere to turn.\n<\/p>\n

\n He\u00a0said all six of those who attended had no accommodation they were aware of when they entered the offices.\n<\/p>\n

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\n The council, meanwhile, said it was disappointed by the action taken by the charity.\n<\/p>\n

\n Mr McInnes said: \u201cHomeless Project Scotland took direct action to demand that applications were taken. We had an assurance that they are willing to work with us to fix this issue.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n He added: \u201cWe have asked to be recognised in our own right and not to be forced to go somewhere else, where they are not being accommodated.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt is about recognising the individual choice of support by someone and not being told they must go somewhere else.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cSome people have been waiting more than three days. We are not putting up with this anymore.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n He said a man spent all day at the hub, but no application was taken.\n<\/p>\n

\n Another client, a woman, was forced to leave accommodation due to domestic abuse, but he said she was also refused and she returned to the shelter.\n<\/p>\n

\n The council said all those who required accommodation have been found accommodation.\n<\/p>\n

\n A spokesperson for Glasgow Health<\/a> and Social Care Partnership said: \u201cWe remain in constant daily contact with HPS and had\u00a0agreed with them a process for how we deal with any new homeless cases.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe are disappointed HPS felt the need to conduct themselves in this way, bypassing the agreed escalation routes.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cUnder no circumstances would the GHSCP deny anyone from making an application for assistance.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe are presently reviewing the cases and responding accordingly.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\n Following the meeting, McInnes said: “This morning we had 37 people on a list needing accommodation.”\n<\/p>\n

\n Hours after the\u00a0meeting, Mr McBride said that it had been reduced to 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colin McInnes, chair of Homeless Project Scotland, led the people into the offices in Merchant City after he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-348247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115036501139640214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}