Edinburgh Invests £15.5M in Temporary Housing

It's April 29th.

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Edinburgh City Counselors just approved a 15.5 million pound contract to ease the temporary

housing crunch for homeless folks.

It's reopening their supported lodgings program with 14 suppliers ready to help vulnerable people,

like young adults and care leavers, Git, stable tendencies with on-site support.

The deal runs up to 8 years at about 1.9 million pounds a year.

Five companies handle just the rooms, eight offer rooms plus support, and one focuses solely

on the guidance side.

This drops right into a massive crisis where the council shels out 40.5 million pounds

yearly on temp spots.

From private rentals to shared houses, too many homeless people show up and get turned

away because beds are full and they frozen council housing allocations for a year to

free up.

Stock.

Meanwhile, they're pouring in big money elsewhere, a 581 million pound capital boost for more

council-owned temp housing over five.

Years plus 1.6 billion pounds for thousands of new affordable homes.

Shelter.

Scotland's sounding the alarm that homelessness is the new normal nationwide with 18,000

households stuck in temp spots up 9%.

That embers doubling down to turn the tide and get folks off the streets for good.