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Tenants need a winter break!

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This year, let’s prevent any new deaths on the street. Let’s have a #WinterBreak for evictions in Scotland.

 

Shelter Scotland estimate that 5,000 people sleep rough on Scotland's streets throughout the year. The main route to homelessness is the loss of a tenancy. In Glasgow alone, 39 people died between May 2016 and March 2017. This risk is far higher in the winter. And this situation is completely avoidable.

 

In France since December 1956, there has been a “winter break’’ to help protect residents from being thrown out into the cold from the 1st of November until the 31st of March. This covers all tenants, people in temporary accommodation, and people living in any temporary shelters from being evicted or such temporary structures from being destroyed.

The “winter break” law helps reduce the risk of people having to sleep rough during the winter, and reduces winter deaths. Help us win this for people in Scotland too.

 

We are calling on the Scottish Government to implement a similar law against evictions during the winter. We do not want anyone sleeping rough this winter and any more winter deaths in Scotland.

 

We want a #WinterBreak for evictions in Scotland.

 

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This year, let’s prevent any new deaths on the street. Let’s have a #WinterBreak for evictions in Scotland.

 

Shelter Scotland estimate that 5,000 people sleep rough on Scotland's streets throughout the year. The main route to homelessness is the loss of a tenancy. In Glasgow alone, 39 people died between May 2016 and March 2017. This risk is far higher in the winter. And this situation is completely avoidable.

 

In France since December 1956, there has been a “winter break’’ to help protect residents from being thrown out into the cold from the 1st of November until the 31st of March. This covers all tenants, people in temporary accommodation, and people living in any temporary shelters from being evicted or such temporary structures from being destroyed.

The “winter break” law helps reduce the risk of people having to sleep rough during the winter, and reduces winter deaths. Help us win this for people in Scotland too.

 

We are calling on the Scottish Government to implement a similar law against evictions during the winter. We do not want anyone sleeping rough this winter and any more winter deaths in Scotland.

 

We want a #WinterBreak for evictions in Scotland.

 

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  • Aleksandra Gaj
    signed 2018-12-10 18:32:26 +0000
  • Georgie Harris
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  • Calam Pengilly
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    Lindsay McClelland
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    signed 2018-11-02 12:47:31 +0000
  • Jessica Maberly
    signed 2018-11-01 14:11:27 +0000
  • Charlotte Couldricl
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  • karen mclean
    signed 2018-10-31 21:21:59 +0000
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    Jason Bunting
  • Kim Farren
    signed 2018-10-31 16:11:02 +0000
  • Nicole Watson
    signed 2018-10-29 11:29:59 +0000
  • Raymond Doherty
    @mondo_christie tweeted link to this page. 2018-10-12 00:33:33 +0100
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  • Beth Coleman
    signed 2018-10-08 11:35:06 +0100
  • Claire Clydesdale
    signed 2018-10-02 19:20:39 +0100
  • Iona Grant
    signed 2018-06-15 11:16:58 +0100
  • Emily Attwater
    signed 2018-06-04 11:42:38 +0100
  • Esmond Sage
    signed 2018-04-24 22:19:24 +0100
  • Marco Darcy
    signed 2018-04-18 17:53:53 +0100
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  • Jon Black
    signed 2018-02-07 11:34:57 +0000
    Sorely needed!