The money goes to a number of hotels used by the council to provide emergency accommodation for people.
Hotel owners in Glasgow are to be paid an extra £3m in the next year to house homeless people and the cost to theThe cost to the council is set to rise from £5.5m to £10.5m, with housing benefit payments.
In 2022/23 hotels and B&B were paid £20,358,474 with £11,781,607 coming from housing benefit payments and another £3,248,066 from covid income for the Scottish Government. The hotels that have been used by the council include St Enoch Hotel, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Alexander Thomson Hotel in the city centre, Chez Nous in the West End and the Queen’s Park Hotel in the southside.
“This is also exacerbated by longer void periods due to supply chain issues within the construction industry. A spokesperson for the HSCP said: “The HSCP is committed to ending the use of bed and breakfast type accommodation for the provision of emergency accommodation for homeless households.
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