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Number of Dumfries and Galloway homeless households continues to rise

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their promise” to help homeless people. The charity’s assistant director for communications and advocacy, Gordon MacRae, said: “These figures show that Scotland’s homelessness system was failing people even before the pandemic hit.“We had rising homelessness and record numbers of people in temporary accommodation before the lockdown.

Local authorities were already struggling to cope with the level of housing need. And since then the situation has gotten a lot worse.“The Scottish Government took swift action in the early days of the pandemic to get rough sleepers off the streets, protect people from eviction and limit the amount of time anyone could spend in unsuitable temporary accommodation.

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