Temporary accommodation: a summary ten point plan

It is four years since the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 gave all people who are assessed as homeless the right to temporary accommodation. In 2004 Shelter published ‘Temporary accommodation: two years on', research indicating that organisations were struggling to meet unprecedented demand for temporary accommodation in light of these new duties. While much has changed in the two years since this research was conducted, there is still evidence that the duty to provide temporary accommodation to all homeless applicants is one of the most difficult to achieve.