Temporary accommodation is the single biggest part of the homelessness services provided by local authorities and meeting these duties continues to be among the hardest for councils to achieve. The use of temporary accommodation has doubled in that last five years and yet local authorities are still not meeting the requirements of the Housing (Scotland) Act, 2001. The increase in temporary accommodation use cannot wholly be explained by legislative changes to entitlement. The number of families with children in temporary accommodation has increased at almost the same rate and their entitlement to temporary accommodation has not changed. Local authorities need to improve the way that such accommodation is managed, and provide more of the right sort of accommodation and support to continue to meet the needs of people who find themselves in housing crisis. In order to achieve this, more funding needs to be made available for local authorities to invest in finding extra temporary accommodation, and there needs to be more permanent accommodation for people to move on to. In our submission to the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review, Shelter is calling for a programme of no less than 10,000 additional rented homes per year over 10 years to alleviate the urgent need for more affordable housing in Scotland.