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Glasgow Has More than 1600 Homeless Stuck in Emergency B&Bs as Numbers Rise
- Glasgow faces a rising homelessness crisis in 2025 with over 1,600 households stuck in emergency B&Bs across 41 sites in the city.
- The crisis stems from a housing emergency declared last year, a shortage of available flats, and a 26 percent increase in homelessness applications over two years.
- As of May 6, there were 4,200 individuals housed in short-term lodging, among whom 1,951 were refugees; these refugees now make up 44 percent of all homelessness applications in Glasgow.
- Pat Togher, Glasgow’s health and social care leader, reported that in April 2025 there were 645 new requests for assistance related to homelessness, underscoring rising demand.
- Without increased investment and policy change, homelessness and housing shortages will worsen, as calls for radical interventions and new building models intensify across Scotland.
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Scotland’s Housing Emergency – one year on
It’s a year since the Scottish Parliament agreed to a Scottish Labour motion declaring a national “housing emergency” in Scotland. A previous SPICe blog considered the background to the Scottish Parliament’s decision and outlined the declaration of local housing emergencies in 13 of Scotland’s 32 councils. This blog looks at what has happened since the…
Tackling the housing emergency - Graeme Dey
Increasing housing supply and reducing temporary accommodation use. A range of measures have been taken by the Scottish Government to increase investment in housebuilding and help reduce the number of households in temporary accommodation since declaring a housing emergency last year. Actions taken in the last year include: Investing £600 million in affordable housing in 2024/25. £40 million of which was used to purchase properties and bring em…
Homes for Scotland to undertake consumer campaign to focus minds of public on the housing emergency – Scottish Business News
With today (15 May) marking a year since the national housing emergency was declared in Scotland, Homes for Scotland (HFS), the representative body for the country’s home building sector, has announced it is to undertake a consumer campaign to challenge public thinking and help to inform civic society on the need for new homes and the wide-ranging benefits they offer. Creative agency Muckle Media has been appointed to lead on developing the bri…
Scotland 'still nowhere near' addressing the scale of housing challenge
Jane Wood. Image credit: Chris Watt ONE year on from Scotland declaring a housing emergency, trade body Homes for Scotland has called for the Scottish Government to implement the ‘radical intervention’ required to tackle the situation. Jane Wood, HFS chief executive, said we are ‘still nowhere near’ addressing the scale of this challenge. “Indeed, we don’t even have an official exit strategy or metric from the Scottish Government to tell us when…
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