More Ayrshire households being assessed as "homeless"
Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterThe number of households in Ayrshire who are assessed as homeless, or at risk, has shot up by 15.4 per cent, The Post can reveal.Latest Scottish Government figures for 2019/20 show that 2363 households were assessed as homeless, or “threatened” with homelessness.South Ayrshire figures show that 721 households were assessed as homeless, up on the 2018/19 figure of 636.And North Ayrshire saw their figure rise to 926 in 2019/20, with the previous year’s figure being 788.In East Ayrshire, figures show 716 households at risk, up from the 2018/19 figure of 623.In North, South and East Ayrshire, the combined totals for 2018/19 stood at 2047.This