The number of homeless households in the authority area needing urgent assistance has doubled
South Lanarkshire Council has declared a housing emergency after seeing soaring numbers of people needing assistance due to homelessness - including a doubling of the backlog of "urgent need" households needing accommodation.
The free download features the latest breaking news and exclusive stories, and allows you to customise your page to the sections that matter most to you.South Lanarkshire now becomes the eighth local authority in Scotland to declare a housing emergency, with councillors unanimously noting that the area has seen a 38 per cent rise in the number of people recorded by the council as homeless and a 28 per cent increase in the number of people applying for assistance.
"We will do everything we can locally and we will always challenge ourselves to do better, but the position local government has been placed in is unsustainable and we need our governments to work together to tackle the cost of living crisis that makes rents and mortgages unaffordable. All councillors voted to declare a housing emergency, with the SNP group making additional calls for the development of a local action plan, and for the reversal of Westminster capital budget cuts to allow for implementation of government plans to deliver 110,000 affordable homes in the "Scotland 2040" project.
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