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Post by Totheleft on Feb 17, 2024 2:37:30 GMT
I'm all for schemes to rehouse the Homeless and support Schemes like Andy Burnham homeless scheme what has been a great success.
But question if Scoolands pioneer Scheme
I's a success or a financial nightmare.
Is paying private sector 100s of millions a success?
Scotland has world-leading legislation meant to prevent homelessness and rapidly rehouse people. Yet an Inside Housing investigation has found spending on temporary accommodation is on the rise. So, what are the reasons and what are the implications for the future of Scottish housing policy?
Scotland has some of the UK’s strongest homelessness protections, including rapid rehousing rules meant to cut the use of temporary accommodation. Yet, last financial year, Scottish councils spent over £160m on temporary accommodation – a rise of 50% in only three years, uncovered by Inside Housing through a Freedom of Information request to all 32 Scottish councils.
Why are the numbers still going up? And how will council finances cope as they increasingly resort to expensive hotels and private homes to meet their statutory duties?
Local authority by spending on temporary accommodation
Show
10Entrees
2022-23
City of Edinburgh
£49,001,631
Glasgow City
£36,609,858
South Lanarkshire
£12,290,626
North Lanarkshire
£11,388,360
Fife
£7,235,113
Dundee
£6,178,598
Aberdeen City
£4,735,617
West Lothian
£3,933,789
East Ayrshire
£3,193,406
Renfrewshire
£3,031,831
This is spent on temporary private accommodation suppose to be up.to.7 days
Meanwhile homeless hostels are being shut down. That can provide homeless sletter
For up to 2yes.
AS STAFF lock the doors of empty bedrooms in James Duncan House in Glasgow's
East End for the final time, there is relief - and also sadness - in the air.
The city's last all-male, council-run homeless hostel closed yesterday, after 30
years providing a roof over the heads of the homeless.
Two similar hostels have already shut and those who work in James Duncan
House in Bell Street, Calton, admit they will not be missed by the local community.
However, they also say it marks a new beginning for some of Glasgow's most
vulnerable citizens.
For many of the men at the basic 250-place hostel it was the place they called
home.
A large number had mental health problems or learning difficulties, while many
more were addicted to alcohol or drugs.
Over the last few months places have been found for all the residents in smaller,
community-based resettlement projects across the city and in private lets.
Meanwhile in labour Controlled Manchester.
Rough sleepers in Manchester City Centre 13 June 2023
There are fewer people sleeping on the streets of Manchester now and fewer being families housed in B&Bs(
You might not believe it if you walk around town on a Friday night, but homelessness is actually falling in Manchester. Since the start of the year, the number of people sleeping on the streets has dropped and fewer families are being housed in B&Bs – with hardly any staying beyond the legal limit now.
the number of people living in all types of temporary accommodation across the city has dropped by 13.1 pc since the end of 2022 when it peaked at 3,194 households. The use of B&Bs has also fallen from 814 in February to 278 with a 79.7 pc reduction in families housed in this type of accommodation.
In fact, Manchester council is now close to meeting its 'ambitious' target of having no families in B&Bs for longer than six weeks by the end of June. It comes after the council changed its policies which means more people are getting help before they become homeless and require emergency housing.
Discuss is Scotlands Scheme of funding private parties time accumadtopmost
Tax payers money well spent
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Post by Vinny on Feb 17, 2024 11:02:04 GMT
Build workhouses and end homelessness.
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Post by thomas on Feb 17, 2024 13:31:21 GMT
I'm all for schemes to rehouse the Homeless and support Schemes like Andy Burnham homeless scheme what has been a great success. But question if Scoolands pioneer Scheme I's a success or a financial nightmare. Is paying private sector 100s of millions a success? Scotland has world-leading legislation meant to prevent homelessness and rapidly rehouse people. Yet an Inside Housing investigation has found spending on temporary accommodation is on the rise. So, what are the reasons and what are the implications for the future of Scottish housing policy? Scotland has some of the UK’s strongest homelessness protections, including rapid rehousing rules meant to cut the use of temporary accommodation. Yet, last financial year, Scottish councils spent over £160m on temporary accommodation – a rise of 50% in only three years, uncovered by Inside Housing through a Freedom of Information request to all 32 Scottish councils. Why are the numbers still going up? And how will council finances cope as they increasingly resort to expensive hotels and private homes to meet their statutory duties? Local authority by spending on temporary accommodation Show 10Entrees 2022-23 City of Edinburgh £49,001,631 Glasgow City £36,609,858 South Lanarkshire £12,290,626 North Lanarkshire £11,388,360 Fife £7,235,113 Dundee £6,178,598 Aberdeen City £4,735,617 West Lothian £3,933,789 East Ayrshire £3,193,406 Renfrewshire £3,031,831 This is spent on temporary private accommodation suppose to be up.to.7 days Meanwhile homeless hostels are being shut down. That can provide homeless sletter For up to 2yes. AS STAFF lock the doors of empty bedrooms in James Duncan House in Glasgow's East End for the final time, there is relief - and also sadness - in the air. The city's last all-male, council-run homeless hostel closed yesterday, after 30 years providing a roof over the heads of the homeless. Two similar hostels have already shut and those who work in James Duncan House in Bell Street, Calton, admit they will not be missed by the local community. However, they also say it marks a new beginning for some of Glasgow's most vulnerable citizens. For many of the men at the basic 250-place hostel it was the place they called home. A large number had mental health problems or learning difficulties, while many more were addicted to alcohol or drugs. Over the last few months places have been found for all the residents in smaller, community-based resettlement projects across the city and in private lets. Meanwhile in labour Controlled Manchester. Rough sleepers in Manchester City Centre 13 June 2023 There are fewer people sleeping on the streets of Manchester now and fewer being families housed in B&Bs( You might not believe it if you walk around town on a Friday night, but homelessness is actually falling in Manchester. Since the start of the year, the number of people sleeping on the streets has dropped and fewer families are being housed in B&Bs – with hardly any staying beyond the legal limit now. the number of people living in all types of temporary accommodation across the city has dropped by 13.1 pc since the end of 2022 when it peaked at 3,194 households. The use of B&Bs has also fallen from 814 in February to 278 with a 79.7 pc reduction in families housed in this type of accommodation. In fact, Manchester council is now close to meeting its 'ambitious' target of having no families in B&Bs for longer than six weeks by the end of June. It comes after the council changed its policies which means more people are getting help before they become homeless and require emergency housing. Discuss is Scotlands Scheme of funding private parties time accumadtopmost Tax payers money well spent
Greater Manchester did not meet its “ambitious” target of completely ending all rough sleeping but researchers said there was an “impressive” 52% reduction against baseline figures, from 241 in November 2018 to 115 that month in 2020.
news.stv.tv/west-central/glasgow-and-manchester-praised-for-efforts-to-reduce-homelessness
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Post by thomas on Feb 17, 2024 13:44:44 GMT
I'm all for schemes to rehouse the Homeless and support Schemes like Andy Burnham homeless scheme what has been a great success. But question if Scoolands pioneer Scheme I's a success or a financial nightmare. Is paying private sector 100s of millions a success? A labour supporter asking if money is being well spent is fucking laughable after the mess your lot left my home city in . The snp have done more for Glasgow in the space of 7 years than labour did in its entire 83 year reign. You almost bankrupted Glasgow city council , spending millions fighting equal pay claims for female council workers over your last ten years in power ,as well as leaving a damming PFI legacy , the stench of corruption and ineptitude which was left as a ticking time bomb when you were booted out of power. Glasgow has many long term problems that stretch back to the years of inept governance under the disgusting Labour Party , but clearly our city has undergone a marvellous transformation since labour were booted out. Glasgow now ranks as one of Europes top cities for growth , high quality jobs and inward investment according to FDI intelligence , while under labours disastrous reign , you boasted to the world how you had Glasgow as the western worlds knife crime capital , with the lowest life expectancy rate in the entire western world.  |
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Post by Totheleft on Feb 17, 2024 15:20:55 GMT
You keep coming ùp with the same crazy
Rubbish. I asked ýou plenty times
To provide evidence
You never do.
Are ýou going to.keep to.the subject or just rant like a crazy Scottish man .
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Post by Vinny on Feb 17, 2024 15:44:27 GMT
Ah just buy him a bottle of Bells and a British flag to burn and he'll be happy as Larry.
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Post by thomas on Feb 17, 2024 16:07:01 GMT
You keep coming ùp with the same crazy Rubbish. I asked ýou plenty times To provide evidence You never do. Are ýou going to.keep to.the subject or just rant like a crazy Scottish man . how many time have we provided evidence for you to ignore , then you wait a week , and redemand we supply the same evidence.? 1. CREATE THE MESS Labour ran the council in Glasgow as an absolute majority for all but six of the last 72 years (and another 11 as a minority before that) and have bitterly fought equal pay for women every step of the way during a 12-year court struggle, the simplest basic outline of which is recounted here. action4equalityscotland.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-fight-for-equal-pay_18.htmlhttps://action4equalityscotland.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-fight-for-equal-pay_18.htmlHaving spent enormous amounts of public money fighting the women who’d been denied their legal entitlement – many of them low-paid carers, cleaners and the like – the council finally lost the case this year, leaving GCC stuck with a crippling liability of up to half a BILLION pounds, which the SNP inherited when they took (minority) control of the council at the elections in May. For context, that sum represents over 40% of the council’s entire annual budget of £1.2bn. The council is already £2.1bn in debt, and spends almost half of its total Council Tax receipts on servicing and repaying that debt, but the new SNP administration now has to find another £500m from somewhere to pay Labour’s bill without completely destroying public services in Scotland’s biggest city. 2. DEMAND SOMEONE ELSE CLEARS UP YOUR MESS INSTANTLY As you can see above, Labour’s immediate reaction on being kicked out by the voters is to furiously rage that the SNP – in power for just four months – haven’t already dealt with Labour’s toxic legacy, like a baby screaming because its dirty nappy hasn’t been changed seconds after it filled it. (Just like when Labour demands that the SNP hike income tax, and reverse PFI contracts, and renationalise the railways, and all the other things Labour didn’t do during the 13 years of its last government, when it held all the levers of power at Westminster AND Holyrood AND council level.) 3. WHEN THEY DO, TRY TO TAKE THE CREDIT Alert viewers will recognise the payoff from previous examples like the mitigation of the bedroom tax, the retention of public-sector ferry services at CalMac and the end of the public-sector pay freeze, and more that we could spend all day listing – when the SNP do the thing they’ve always said they were going to do, often against bitter opposition from Labour at the time (eg the second Forth crossing), Labour trumpet that it only happened because they forced the SNP’s hand. wingsoverscotland.com/the-cunninghame-plan/#more-98399 wingsoverscotland.com/just-enough-rope/#more-107071 |
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Post by Totheleft on Feb 20, 2024 10:16:10 GMT
I'm all for schemes to rehouse the Homeless and support Schemes like Andy Burnham homeless scheme what has been a great success. But question if Scoolands pioneer Scheme I's a success or a financial nightmare. Is paying private sector 100s of millions a success? Scotland has world-leading legislation meant to prevent homelessness and rapidly rehouse people. Yet an Inside Housing investigation has found spending on temporary accommodation is on the rise. So, what are the reasons and what are the implications for the future of Scottish housing policy? Scotland has some of the UK’s strongest homelessness protections, including rapid rehousing rules meant to cut the use of temporary accommodation. Yet, last financial year, Scottish councils spent over £160m on temporary accommodation – a rise of 50% in only three years, uncovered by Inside Housing through a Freedom of Information request to all 32 Scottish councils. Why are the numbers still going up? And how will council finances cope as they increasingly resort to expensive hotels and private homes to meet their statutory duties? Local authority by spending on temporary accommodation Show 10Entrees 2022-23 City of Edinburgh £49,001,631 Glasgow City £36,609,858 South Lanarkshire £12,290,626 North Lanarkshire £11,388,360 Fife £7,235,113 Dundee £6,178,598 Aberdeen City £4,735,617 West Lothian £3,933,789 East Ayrshire £3,193,406 Renfrewshire £3,031,831 This is spent on temporary private accommodation suppose to be up.to.7 days Meanwhile homeless hostels are being shut down. That can provide homeless sletter For up to 2yes. AS STAFF lock the doors of empty bedrooms in James Duncan House in Glasgow's East End for the final time, there is relief - and also sadness - in the air. The city's last all-male, council-run homeless hostel closed yesterday, after 30 years providing a roof over the heads of the homeless. Two similar hostels have already shut and those who work in James Duncan House in Bell Street, Calton, admit they will not be missed by the local community. However, they also say it marks a new beginning for some of Glasgow's most vulnerable citizens. For many of the men at the basic 250-place hostel it was the place they called home. A large number had mental health problems or learning difficulties, while many more were addicted to alcohol or drugs. Over the last few months places have been found for all the residents in smaller, community-based resettlement projects across the city and in private lets. Meanwhile in labour Controlled Manchester. Rough sleepers in Manchester City Centre 13 June 2023 There are fewer people sleeping on the streets of Manchester now and fewer being families housed in B&Bs( You might not believe it if you walk around town on a Friday night, but homelessness is actually falling in Manchester. Since the start of the year, the number of people sleeping on the streets has dropped and fewer families are being housed in B&Bs – with hardly any staying beyond the legal limit now. the number of people living in all types of temporary accommodation across the city has dropped by 13.1 pc since the end of 2022 when it peaked at 3,194 households. The use of B&Bs has also fallen from 814 in February to 278 with a 79.7 pc reduction in families housed in this type of accommodation. In fact, Manchester council is now close to meeting its 'ambitious' target of having no families in B&Bs for longer than six weeks by the end of June. It comes after the council changed its policies which means more people are getting help before they become homeless and require emergency housing. Discuss is Scotlands Scheme of funding private parties time accumadtopmost Tax payers money well spent
Greater Manchester did not meet its “ambitious” target of completely ending all rough sleeping but researchers said there was an “impressive” 52% reduction against baseline figures, from 241 in November 2018 to 115 that month in 2020.
news.stv.tv/west-central/glasgow-and-manchester-praised-for-efforts-to-reduce-homelessness
Let's look at the homeless crisis in the here and now not in 2020 Glasgow Times www.glasgowtimes.co.uk › ... Scale of Glasgow's homeless crisis revealed in new figures 13 Dec 2023 — The scale of Glasgow's homeless emergency has been laid bare in new information showing a big rise in rough sleeping September, 149 people said they had slept rough previous to contacting the council. In November that had gone up by 87% to 279 people. Shocking increase |
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Post by Vinny on Feb 20, 2024 10:58:23 GMT
Build facilities, offer a way off the streets and support them.
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Post by Totheleft on Feb 20, 2024 11:08:47 GMT
Build facilities, offer a way off the streets and support them. Is that to the people in Scotland |
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Post by Vinny on Feb 20, 2024 11:13:47 GMT
We're British, all British taxpayers pay for public services in Scotland.
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Post by Totheleft on Feb 20, 2024 11:21:13 GMT
We're British, we all pay for public services in Scotland. Oh I'm sure Scotland already has such schemes. But the homeless continue to. Grow. Surly the post way to.treat homelessness is to stop it from happening in the first place . The Government was to put in a law to stop no reason Eviction But that Seemed to take second place to the Rwanda Scheme. |
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Post by Vinny on Feb 20, 2024 11:25:15 GMT
No, Scotland has devolution and loopy lefties lavishing money ON THEMSELVES.
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Post by johnofgwent on Feb 20, 2024 16:29:43 GMT
Build facilities, offer a way off the streets and support them. The thing is, when they built Cwmbran as a new town they built industry - factories making things, and had existing legacy manufacturing in the way of steel and tin plate rolling and pressing nearby The key worker housing they built was occupied by key workers able to pay the rent from their wages How does that compare to these others … |
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Post by thomas on Feb 21, 2024 8:10:29 GMT
New research from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh found that Glasgow achieved its target of driving down city centre rough sleeping by 75%, to fewer than seven people at any one time by that point.
Let's look at the homeless crisis in the here and now not in 2020 Let's look at the labour governments record regarding homelessness in scotland , and compare....  Homelessness in scotland fell in every single year of Alec almonds being in power bar. one , in 2008 , where there was a small increase. Even with that small increase , it had almost been halved by the snp since labour had homelessness through the roof during their time in power. Under sturgeon and yousaff , there has been a cumulative increase of something like 10 % , but it's still way below the range labour had homelessness in scotland during their time in power. No thanks labour. |
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