EXCLUSIVE: A total of 7,266 people were in temporary accommodation on April 1, including 2,765 children.
A staggering 7,000 homeless people are living in temporary accommodation in Glasgow amid a housing and homelessness emergency, the Record can reveal.Some 1,590 homeless people were living in hotel or bed and breakfast accommodation. This included 52 families with children.The average time that a family with three children stayed in temporary accommodation between January 1, 2023 and April 1, 2024 was 30 weeks.
Private rental prices rose by 6.8 per cent in the twelve months to January and housebuilding has slumped.Some councils had already declared an emergency - including Glasgow and Edinburgh.Clerkin said: "These homeless metrics for Glasgow show the scale of the housing and homeless disaster in the city showing record numbers of homeless people stuck in squalid, overcrowded and substandard temporary accommodation.
"Our protest today at Glasgow City Chambers is a heartfelt moral call to the authorities for homeless people to be given permanent warm, dry and secure homes to live in with tens of thousands of new social rented home to be built in Glasgow and throughout Scotland alongside the retrofitting of the over 2,600 empty homes in Glasgow and up to 46,000 empty homes in Scotland.
It also revealed 453 individuals reported to Glasgow City Council that they had slept rough between June and December 2023. Between January and April 1 this year, some 219 people reported sleeping rough.
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