At Shelter Scotland, we’re too used to hearing about disputes between tenants and private landlords or letting agents. When these relationships break down often the only thing that can...
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Health and fuel poverty: The catalogue of Scottish schemes aiming to tackle the risks
There has been a lot of attention recently on fuel poverty, and 748,000 fuel poor households marked a failed target to eradicate fuel poverty by November 2016. Two major reports were...
Can we ‘prescribe’ affordable warmth?
The health implications of fuel poverty are well understood and widely accepted. Health, fuel poverty and cold homes are inextricably linked and the relationship is bi-directional: poor...
New Year, New Challenges
After the political, social and cultural rollercoaster that was 2016 and the waves of news that crashed upon us almost unrelentingly, the Christmas period and the new year have hopefully...
Domestic Abuse: Why victims need housing choices
Each year, the 10th of December is Human Rights Day to commemorate the day, 68 years ago, that the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It gave us all...