| Comment | Sorry for the flippant tone of the original post but as I work for a charity directly impacted by the uselessness of this mob I was (and am) feeling somewhat aggrieved by the whole situation.
On your point: rough sleeping is a vanishingly small facet of homelessness. The overwhelming majority of homeless people are living in temporary accommodation, often long-term, due to a lack of socially rented properties.
See here for statistics for Scotland as a whole in the last year: https://scotland.shelter.org.uk/housing_policy/homelessness_in_scotlan
And here for the Glasgow rates 2021/22: https://www.gov.scot/publications/homelessness-scotland-2021-22/pages/4/#:~:text=Most%20homeless%20households%20are%20in%20Glasgow&text=Glasgow%20recorded%20the%20largest%20numerical,in%20Glasgow%20since%202012%2F13.
I also happen to know that the rates that have not been released for Glasgow for the period 2022/23 are going to show a significant increase. I have also personally seen that the council have recently repeatedly failed to satisfy their statutory duty to house people due to a lack of accommodation. It's extremely bleak.
Hopefully this will clarify things a bit, I promise I'm not trolling but am actually genuinely concerned with the way the sector is going. Things are at breaking point and, as said above, millions has just been spent on a completely failed project which solved nothing. |
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