The program is backed by £500,000 from the SNP Government to cover staff training and service development.
Housing Minister Keith Brown said: "Scotland has an important but challenging, homelessness target: that by the end of December 2012, all unintentionally homeless households will have the right to settled accommodation.
"The main priority of the hubs is to focus on the prevention of homelessness through a combination of sharing best practice, joint training and commissioning joint research.
"Councils across the country are to be applauded for the manner in which they have enthusiastically embraced prevention as the way forward in the fight to tackle homelessness."
And the results so far have been impressive. In North Ayrshire there has been a 57.5 per cent reduction in homelessness since 2003.
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