The number of people having to be put in hotels in Glasgow is going up as homelessness is rising rapidly with the city’s housing emergency affecting more people.

Month after month, the total number living in emergency accommodation is increasing with more than 1800 now living in hotels or B&Bs.

Between August 1 and September 1 this year there was an almost 10% jump in people having to be accommodated up from 1652 to 1806.

The total included 352 women an increase from 314 and 103 families with children also up, from 97.

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The council said the situation is not acceptable and it needs more cash from governments in Edinburgh and London to help cope with “extreme pressure”.

The council declared a housing emergency a year ago and since then the situation has worsened.

The Glasgow Times has published the figures throughout the year and the scale of the rising demand is stark.

In January there were 1390 people in the emergency situation including 26 families with children.

The figures were obtained by the Scottish Tenants Association under freedom of information.

Its campaign co-ordinator Sean Clerkin said: “These terrible homeless statistics for Glasgow show that we are near the point of no return in the city and throughout Scotland.”

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The campaigner repeated his call for the Housing Minister Paul McLennan to be sacked and replaced with a cabinet level appointment.

He added this is needed to “implement an emergency action plan spending the extra monies from Westminster for this year and next in reinstating the Scottish Affordable Housing Supply Budget in full”.

Clerkin added: “There is no more room for empty rhetoric by politicians as the ongoing housing and homeless disaster has to be fixed now.

“A good start for that is to abandon the obsession for mid market rented homes and concentrate all public  monies to be spent on building and retrofitting social rented homes in Glasgow and throughout Scotland to house all of our homeless citizens.

“We are 30 seconds to midnight and need to solve the housing and homeless crisis now."

The council said demand is far greater than the availability of housing.

A spokesperson for Glasgow’s Health and Social Care Partnership said: “We remain in a very unfortunate situation and certainly not one we wish anyone to be in. We are dealing with increasing numbers of people coming to Glasgow to access our services and, in turn, increasing numbers of people being accommodated in unsuitable accommodation.

“It is well documented that the housing system in Glasgow is experiencing extreme pressure.

“We do work hard to prioritise families with children and get them into permanent accommodation as quickly as possible, with 92% currently being accommodated in furnished accommodation in the community.

“The reality is demand far outstrips availability which means people – including children - are spending longer in emergency and temporary accommodation than any of us would want.  

“The extended use of bed and breakfast accommodation is being driven by the rapid increase in demand for homeless assistance. We continue to work with partners to widen our use of emergency accommodation as an alternative to bed and breakfast type accommodation.  

“The situation is far from acceptable, and we continue to push both governments for additional resource.”