This #WorldHomelessDay we stand with the 10,715 kids waking up without a home in Scotland, and the 19,004 households trapped in temp accommodation. Help us fight for the social homes Scotland needs to end the #HousingEmergency. Everyone deserves a safe & secure home. shelterscotland.org/ActLeaders

Ahead of #WorldHomelessDay, families impacted by homelessness, @shelterscotland.bsky.social & @fifegingerbread.bsky.social met with @sa4dunfermline.bsky.social to share their experiences and deliver a route map to end child homelessness. With 10,715 kids in temp. accommodation, we need action now.

You can’t tackle child poverty while children are denied a safe & secure home. With another record high number of children in temp. accommodation, tackling the #HousingEmergency must be part of tackling child poverty this #ChallengePoverty Week. End child homelessness 👉 shelterscotland.org/ActCH

125,000 households are waiting for a social home in Scotland. 🏡 We must build at least 15,693 social homes every year of this Parliament to tackle the #HousingEmergency and reduce homelessness. Help make that happen ➡️ shelterscotland.org/ActLeaders

The flexible funding raised by @postcodelotteryuk.bsky.social players lets us respond to where the need is greatest, allowing us to stay rooted in communities in Scotland. To all Postcode Lottery players, thank you. You're helping us fight for a future where everybody has somewhere to call home 🏠❤️

New figures from The Scottish Government reveals nowhere near enough social homes are being built to tackle the #HousingEmergency Needed: 15,693+ per year Reality: 5,353 in the past 12 months More thoughts from our Interim Director, Gordon Llewellyn-MacRae, here 👇 shelterscotland.org/HBS-Sep26

🚨 Scotland isn’t building nearly enough social homes to end the #HousingEmergency, new figures from The Scottish Government reveal. Only 5,353 social homes were completed in the past 12 months, compared to the minimum 15,693 a year needed to start reducing homelessness. ℹ️ More info in the reply 👇

A record high 10,715 children trapped in emergency accommodation need your help. #HousingEmergency We know the solution is more social homes, so help us remind the First Minister and his government. Together, let’s fight to end child homelessness. Shout with us 👉 shelterscotland.org/ActLeaders

💔 Today, 40 more children across Scotland woke up without a home. And tomorrow, it will be another 40. More social homes are the only solution, but we need your help to shout about it loud enough that it can no longer be ignored. #HousingEmergency Shout with us 👉 shelterscotland.org/ActCH

Our Interim Director, Gordon Llewellyn-MacRae, reflects on the latest homelessness stats from The Scottish Government and what needs to be done to address the #HousingEmergency. If you agree with us Scotland cannot afford any more broken promises, then join the cause. ✊ shelterscotland.org/ActCH

⚠️ 10,715 children in Scotland are trapped in temporary accommodation. A record high, and more than double from a decade ago. #HousingEmergency Behind every statistic is a child and a family waiting for a home. Help us fight for the homes they, and Scotland, need. 👉 shelterscotland.org/ActCH

🚨 Twice as many children are waking up without a home compared to a decade ago, new Scottish Govt stats reveal. Decades of under investment in social homes means 10,715 children are now trapped in temporary accommodation. Help us fight for an end to child homelessness 👉 shelterscotland.org/ActCH

To everyone who raised vital funds for Shelter Scotland across the Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen #Kiltwalk events, we thank you ❤️ Every mile you walked and every £ raised is helping us continue the fight against Scotland's #HousingEmergency See you in 2027, Kiltwalkers! 👣

👠 New York has the runways 👗 London has the fashion 🛍️ But we’ve got the rails! Rescue & Relove gives pre-loved fashion a new lease of life through repair, reworking, restyling and creativity. Who says your next favourite piece must be brand new? ♻️ Give us a visit 👉 shelterscotland.org/ShopFinder

Join Gordon at Raising the Level for a timely, important workshop with the Scottish Anti-Racism in Housing Network - exploring how we collaborate across services & communities to embed Anti-Racist practice in the housing and homelessness sectors. Book: buff.ly/m3uC8YU @shelterscotland.bsky.social

🏠 Safe, secure & affordable homes change lives A new social tenancy can generate an average of £11,639 in social value within six months, improving health, wellbeing and life chances. This #ScottishHousingDay, let's send a message: Scotland needs more social homes 👉 shelterscotland.org/ActLeaders

The #HousingEmergency is devastating families across Scotland. Behind every number is a person: A neighbour. A friend. A family member. It's heartbreaking. But there's hope. Watch our short film 🎬 youtu.be/H0_Y7ZYQCIw

The final #Kiltwalk of 2026 is heading to Edinburgh this Sunday! A huge thank you to everyone kiltwalking for Shelter Scotland 🥾. Your fundraising helps us continue fighting Scotland’s #HousingEmergency and for a future where everyone has a safe, secure and affordable home. ❤️

👗👔 Ditch the New York Fashion Week runway and make your own statement. Rescue & Relove is about seeing the potential in pre-loved fashion. Repair it, rework it, re-style it and make it your own. ♻️ The best look might already be in your wardrobe or on the rails of your local Shelter Scotland shop.

1975: Around 1,000,000 social homes, representing 54% of all homes in Scotland 2026: 633,030 social homes, representing only 23% of all homes in Scotland Scotland has a #HousingEmergency because it doesn't have the social homes it needs. Let's change that, together. 👉 shelterscotland.org/Act

🏠 Ahead of The Scottish Government releasing the annual homelessness stats later this month, this is the current state of the #HousingEmergency. These numbers can be reduced if Scotland gets the social homes it desperately needs. ⁠You can help by demanding action 👉 shelterscotland.org/ActLeaders

Ending the #HousingEmergency shouldn't be on the list But unless we get the social homes Scotland desperately needs, we can't end homelessness

♻️ Rescue & Relove is back! Last year we increased shop sales of ‘sold as seen’ items by 167%, with customers displacing 8,239 new purchases by opting for pre-loved fashion instead. But this year we’re going bigger. Watch to find out how, and find out more, here 👇 shelterscotland.org/Relove

⁠Miss yesterday's Programme for Government? Find out what the First Minister promised after families and organisations like us campaigned to end child homelessness, and why it's not yet time to celebrate. #HousingEmergency

We have joined families, @shelterscotland.bsky.social & partners to call on the First Minister to act now to end the scandal of child homelessness.

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Families with experience of homelessness joined Shelter Scotland, @fifegingerbread.bsky.social & partners to call on John Swinney to put ending child homelessness at the heart of the Programme for Government 10,480 children in temp accommodation cannot be the new normal 🔗 shelterscotland.org/OL-PfG

Today, FM John Swinney has promised to end harmful temporary accommodation for children. #HousingEmergency This is good news. It shows he's listening to the families who delivered demand for action this week. He now needs to turn warm words into action. Full statement 👉 shelterscotland.org/PfG-26

🧒 End child homelessness 🏘️ Build the social homes we need ⚖️ Guarantee housing rights These should be key priorities in today's Programme for Government With over 10,000 children stuck in temporary accommodation, homelessness must be at the top of the Scottish Government's agenda. #HousingEmergency

Families with experience of homelessness joined Shelter Scotland, @fifegingerbread.bsky.social & partners to call on John Swinney to put ending child homelessness at the heart of the Programme for Government 10,480 children in temp accommodation cannot be the new normal 🔗 shelterscotland.org/OL-PfG

We’ll be bidding farewell to our outgoing Chair, Kezia Dugdale, next month when she hands over the baton to our incoming Chair, SallyAnn Kelly OBE. Kezia has shown outstanding leadership, dedication and passion as Chair over the past five years. Thank you, Kezia 👏

Yesterday at the Building Hope Rally with @fifegingerbread.bsky.social, professionals, allies & people with lived experience came together to show that change is possible But promises alone don’t build homes. Together, we can build the collective voice needed to end child homelessness in Scotland 🤝