The scale of Glasgow’s homeless emergency has been laid bare in new information showing a big rise in rough sleeping and people put up in hotels.

Newly released data reveals an almost doubling of the number of people who said they slept rough before presenting as homeless.

The information also shows the number of homeless people in hotels and B&Bs has seen a big rise.

Last month, a continual rise in people in emergency and temporary accommodation led to Glasgow City Council declaring a housing emergency and calling for more resources to allow it to deal with the crisis.

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And with more asylum claims planned to be processed the number is predicted to rise.

The latest figures show there are now more than 1000 people being put up in hotels and B&Bs.

The council has had to increase its use of hotels to meet demand for emergency accommodation.

On September 1, there were 798 people in hotels and by November 1, it had risen to 1001, a jump of  25%.

The latest figures also show an even bigger rise in people stating they had been forced to sleep rough before making an application to the council as homeless.

In September, 149 people said they had slept rough previous to contacting the council. In November that had gone up by 87% to 279 people.

The data was supplied to Sean Clerkin, campaign co-ordinator of the Scottish Tenants Organisation.

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Mr Clerkin said: “We have a homeless catastrophe in Glasgow with a massive rise in rough sleeping with many men and women facing death on our streets this winter unless extra tens of millions of pounds is provided to Glasgow City Council now by the Scottish Government to stop this catastrophe from happening.

“We need therefore millions of pounds now to greatly improve temporary accommodation with in-house wrap-around services for drug and alcohol addiction as well as mental health care services being provided.”

A spokesperson for Glasgow City Council, said: “The city is facing unprecedented levels of demand for emergency accommodation. This is largely driven by the UK Government’s decision to accelerate the asylum decision process, with significant numbers of people travelling to Glasgow from across Scotland but also from Ireland and London.  

“We have expanded our use of bed and breakfast in an attempt to meet the current levels of demand for homelessness assistance. We declared a housing emergency due to the pressures on the city in relation to the demand for housing and homelessness services. We continue to engage with the UK and Scottish Governments as we seek assistance to deal with the increased demand.”