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Annie Brown

Rundown Scots hotel raking in up to £1m a year in taxpayers' cash to house homeless

A rundown hotel accused of being run like an “open prison” is raking in up to a million pounds a year of taxpayers’ cash to house the homeless.

The Queen’s Park Hotel in Glasgow charges the city council £1400 a month for one single room with shared toilet facilities.

The hotel pockets an astonishing £2800 a month in housing benefit per homeless couple for a shabby double room – with one room we saw containing a chair, a bed, broken chest of drawers, a TV hanging off the wall and an ensuite shower room.

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