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Rough sleeping in Scotland eradicated during lockdown as calls increase to keep it that way

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Rough sleeping in Scotland has been virtually wiped out in after hotels in Glasgow and Edinburgh were signed up during the lockdown to get people off the streets.Bosses of homelessness charities are now determined we don’t return to the “old normal” that saw vulnerable Scots sleeping and dying on cold pavements.

Despite annual protests, the issue of rough sleeping has been one that has endured.But the Scottish Government support for hotel places for 140 people in Glasgow and Edinburgh has been a huge success, sparking questions on why we have never been able to get a solution to the problem up to now.Simon Community director Hugh Hill, who coordinated the hotels project, said: “Whatever the new normal is, it has to be better the normal we

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