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If 10 people become homeless a day would you say it’s better to house one of them or make it so that 2 people are becoming homeless a day by protecting people and their families from the stress and trauma to begin with?
Like the laws we’ve changed help people. For example the deposit protection scheme in Scotland so landlords can’t steal your deposit or no bedroom tax in Scotland. Giving people free legal advice means that disadvantaged people have someone in their corner and keeping the government in check keeps them accountable.
With the example of Glasgow city council we beat them in court because they were illegally rejecting housing applications which left people dying on the street.
For things to get better legal change is the way forward so that people have these rights but 66% of homeless people that get help from us get a home.
Obviously there are charities that house people themselves and giving to them is an amazing thing to do but it’s all a part of the same fight |