Councils spent almost £300m on private firms ‘profiting from misery’ of homeless

The importance of the condition of housing for homeless people was highlighted by the deaths of nine people in 2020 at the Alexander Thomson Hotel in Glasgow

COUNCILS have been accused of a “moral failure” to provide decent housing to homeless people and of overseeing a “fiscal disaster” as new figures reveal they spent more than a quarter of a billion pounds on homeless accommodation provided by private companies and landlords.