A growing number of homeless women in Scotland are being exposed to violence and unsafe living conditions. Campaigners say the housing crisis is forcing women to choose between dangerous partners and inadequate shelters.
A hidden population of homeless women are being exposed to daily dangers of violence and oppression. Campaigners claim that Scotland ’s housing crisis has created a large cohort of mums who are choosing to stay with violent partners to enable then to hold on to their children. Other women are choosing to sleep on sofas and some on pavements instead of accepting rooms in “hell-hole” hotels, where they have been exposed to the risk of further violence and sexual assault.
Laura Jones, of the Scottish Tenants’ Organisation, said recent months have brought an alarming rise in reports of fear and violence by women who find themselves homeless. Recent figures showed that, in Glasgow, 108 families were living in B and Bs or hotels, the use of which is strictly limited by law. Many of these establishments have become associated with hellish conditions. The account by Jones chimes with the findings of housing charity Shelter, which claims many women are finding it impossible to find secure and safe accommodation. Jones said: “We’ve now got 108 families with children in these hell-hole hotels, which is a huge increase from earlier months. “The law is being broken every day by Glasgow City Council and people are not being given what they have a legal right to. “More and more of those caught up in homelessness are women, often with children and fleeing domestic violence.” Jones said the dire state of affairs is witnessed nightly at the Homeless Project Scotland emergency shelter, which is oversubscribed yet faces possible closure over a planning row, She said: “We have a distressing situation where the emergency and temporary accommodation being offered to women is so dangerous and unsuitable that they would rather sleep on the street or seek a mattress at the night shelter run by Homeless Network Scotland. “It seems very strange that such a facility might be shut down and I would most certainly urge against tha
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