The scale of homelessness in Glasgow sees the council spend almost three times as much on hotels as it does on temporary furnished flats. Official figures show that £9.4m was spent last year on temporary accommodation for homeless people.
Meanwhile, hotel owners were paid more than £27m to provide emergency accommodation for people. READ NEXT: How much owners of homeless hotels in Glasgow were paid READ NEXT : B&B use for homeless in Glasgow doubled in under a year Despite there being more than four times the number of people in temporary accommodation (7371) than in hotels the council pays out far more to hotel owners than social landlords. The number of homeless people in B&Bs and hotels in Glasgow has been rising steadily.
On June 1 there were 1634 people in hotels and B&Bs. On January 1, this year there were 1390. The council has a policy of wanting to end the use of hotels and B&Bs for homeless people but the level of demand is so great it has had to ask for even more rooms.
Without hotels and B&Bs there would be more than 1600 people facing rough sleeping. The quality of accommodation in some of the hotels, however, has been branded substandard, and appalling. The Glasgow Times, with Govan Law Centre, has been running the End The Homeless Hotel Shame campaign to highlight the conditions and call for a tough inspection regime to force owners to improve their premises.
(Image: newsquest) The figures also show an increase in the number of families in the hotels and the n.