Scotland to face a ‘tidal wave’ of homeless as cost-of-living crisis bites
[Jonathan Rados / Creative Commons]
SCOTLAND will face a “tidal wave” of homelessness when Britain’s cost-of-living crisis bites in April as energy prices soar.
Campaigners say housing tenants already owe landlords £300 million in unpaid rent and 8,000 children are living in temporary accommodation, more than a quarter of them in Glasgow.
At a protest in Glasgow yesterday they called on the Scottish government to introduce a ban on evictions, a two-year freeze on housing rents and a crash programme of social and council house building.
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