A rough sleeper thought getting off the streets and into a Glasgow homeless hotel would finally give him a break, but he was wrong. Alex McGinty stayed in the Rennie Mackintosh Hotel on Union Street for three weeks while struggling with homelessness last year. The 54-year-old, from Maryhill, was devastated to check in and find the place 'filthy' and he could hear rodents.
Alex said he wouldn’t wish his “nightmare” experience on his “worst enemy” after lying awake listening to mice scurrying around in his cold room. Charles Rennie Mackintosh Hotel Glasgow (Image: Sourced) READ MORE: My story from New York fashion scene to Glasgow Homeless hotel He spoke to the Glasgow Times as part of our End the Homeless Hotel Shame campaign with Govan Law Centre. We are calling for a rigorous inspection regime to force owners to improve conditions.
For the Scottish Government to provide funding to ensure there is enough social housing and the UK Government to compensate Glasgow for the high number of asylum seekers and refugees who end up homeless. Alex said: “I had slept on the streets around Christmas time last year, so when I got a room there I thought I was going to be safe and get a break at last. I was wrong.
“The Mackintosh Hotel which had lots of mice in the rooms and was very filthy. “It was very cold and I would lay awake all night listening to mice in the walls and in the room, getting to sleep was a nightmare. “They then put you out at 6am and you had to hang ar.
