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SNP housing minister faces calls to resign as rough sleeping soars
A sign near a homeless person and their dog on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, January 12, 2018

SCOTTISH Labour has called for “missing in action” SNP housing minister Paul McLennan to resign amid soaring homelessness and a “rough-sleeping emergency.”

The call came after the Scottish government’s own figures revealed that in just three years there had been a staggering 72 per cent rise in the number of households forced to sleep on the streets the night before submitting a formal homeless application.

According to the data, 366 households making an application between July and September 2021 reported sleeping rough the night before, a figure that had rocketed to 631 between July and September 2024.

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