HOTELS used to accommodate homeless people have been inspected just six times in the last year. The Glasgow Times End the Homeless Hotel Shame campaign has highlighted several cases of people exposing the unacceptable conditions people are expected to live in. They have told of dirty rooms, filth-stained mattresses, bed bugs and vermin in a number of the hotels used by the council .
READ NEXT: Man tells of rats and mice in city centre homeless hotel READ NEXT: My story from New York fashion scene to Glasgow Homeless hotel READ NEXT: Housing emergency: New build social rent homes plummet in Glasgow The campaign, in partnership with Govan Law Centre, is calling on the council to implement a strict standards policy backed up by inspections to ensure the hotel owners are providing accommodation that is fit to live in. One of the men we spoke to said he feared for people who are extremely vulnerable being put into these hotels. The Glasgow Times has obtained details of the inspections under Freedom of Information laws.
We asked what standards the hotels paid for by the council must adhere to and were told there is no specific standards for hotels used for homeless people that differ to those used commercially by the public. We were told: “The standards that the Council’s Environmental Health Team enforce for all relevant businesses within the city are as follows: The Health & Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and associated regulations; and The Food Safety Act 1990 and associated re.