While the hotels used to provide emergency accommodation are deemed unfit and not suitable by many, others are desperate to get in, if only as a stopgap. While they provide shelter from the outdoors the hotels are also a gateway to people getting moved on to temporary accommodation. Last week the Glasgow Times told the story of Jonathan Ward, who endured a week in the Rennie Mackintosh hotel before being offered a temporary furnished flat.
READ NEXT: My story from New York fashion scene to Glasgow Homeless hotel READ NEXT: Man tells of rats and mice in city centre homeless hotel We also told of a man who was in the St Enoch Hotel and told of mice and rat traps. For our End the Homeless Hotel Shame campaign, we spoke to a number of people who had turned to the Homeless Project Scotland charity for shelter. The campaign with Govan Law Centre, is calling for a rigorous inspection programme to ensure the hotels are fit for purpose.
(Image: newsquest) READ NEXT: Glasgow Times new campaign: End the Homeless Hotel Shame Paul Markle, 35, had spent five nights at the shelter. He said: “If this wasn’t here I’d be on the streets. This place is a saviour for me.
“I’ve been on the street since last October. “I was in the Bellgrove Hotel years ago, you've probably heard about that. It was a nightmare.
“This is better than any of the hotels I’ve been in.” Sean Taylor, is volunteering at the charity after he spent time there and had been moved to the Queen’s Park Hotel. H.