This was driven by a convergence of factors including the cost-of-living crisis impacting affordability across all tenures, insufficient housing supply, particularly in social housing, and an increase in homelessness applications, especially from refugee households following the Home Office’s streamlined asylum decision- making process in July 2023. 1.2 As at December 2025, there are 6,985 live homelessness applications in Glasgow, and 4,728 living in local authority provided temporary accommodation, including 1,398 families with children, of which 698 families have 3 or more children. 2,100 households are now residing in hotel and bed breakfast accommodation across 56 different sites, which compares with 220 pre...