The number of families put up in B&Bs and hotels in Glasgow has doubled in just three months.
There are more people in temporary accommodation, including thousands of homeless children and more in hotels than three months ago as Glasgow struggles with a homelessness crisis.The latest official figures show on April 1 there were 52 families living in homeless B&B hotels, twice as many than January 1, when it was 26.Women living in the hotels have also increased from 180 to 242 in April.
The data released under Freedom of Information to the Scottish Tenants Organisation showed there were 4201 breaches of the unsuitable accommodation order between January 1, 2023 and April 1, 2024.Thousands of pounds worth of dermal filler seized in Glasgow “Families living in such unsuitable conditions will detrimentally affect them and their children damaging their physical and mental well-being to the extent that we have thousands of homeless children in Glasgow being damaged for life.
“The number of families in these hellhole hotels infested with mice, rats and cockroaches has doubled and every breach of the unsuitable accommodation order has been in these horrible places.”said there has been an increase in demand for homeless services and it depends on housing associations for properties to use as temporary accommodation.
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