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Glasgow City Council Protest Q&A

By: Shelter Scotland
Published: July 2018

Glasgow City Council Protest Q&A

This Q&A explains why we are taking direct action against Glasgow City Council's practice of gatekeeping.

We are protesting the fact that, for several years, Glasgow City Council (GCC) has been
breaking the law and not delivering on its legal duty to house homeless people in the
city. The latest official statistics show that last year Glasgow City Council failed to
provide temporary accommodation over 3,000 times to households that needed
housing help and to whom they had a statutory duty. This is simply wrong and it is
unlawful.