Question reference: S6W-01832
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 23 July 2021
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Current status: Answered by Shona Robison on 16 August 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been supported through Housing First in each year since its introduction, broken down by local authority.
Answer
The Housing First Pathfinder programme started in August 2018 across six local authority areas with Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire working in partnership. Up until the 30 June 2021, a total of 531 people have received Housing First support through the pathfinder programme, which has been funded by the Scottish Government, The Merchants House of Glasgow and Social Bite. The following table provides a breakdown of tenancies commenced and the number of tenancies sustained across each local authority area:
Tenancies Commenced | Total Tenancies Commenced | Tenancies Sustained | ||||
Local Authority | 0108/18 – 31/03/19 | 01/04/19 – 31/03/20 | 01/04/20 – 31/03/21 | 01/04/21 – 30/06/21 | ||
Aberdeen/shire | 4 | 21 | 62 | 10 | 97 | 89 |
Dundee | 7 | 37 | 36 | 7 | 87 | 75 |
Edinburgh | 13 | 41 | 57 | 9 | 120 | 100 |
Glasgow | 28 | 87 | 77 | 22 | 214 | 176 |
Stirling | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 8 |
TOTAL | 531 | 448 | ||||
The Scottish Government has developed a Housing First monitoring framework to capture progress on Housing First across all Scotland’s local authorities. The monitoring framework will collect information on Housing First tenancies commenced by local authorities from 1 April 2021 on a quarterly basis.
Scottish Government will publish the first quarterly progress update on Housing First tenancies across Scotland in September 2021.