Edinburgh's £15.5M Homelessness Contract

0:00Edinburgh councillors just approved a temporary accommodation contract, worth up to 15.5 million pounds to support homeless people, including young folks coming out of care. This deal reopens their supported lodgings program, bringing in 14 suppliers to provide onsite help for managing tendencies. The contract runs up to 8 years, with about 1.9 million pounds spent each year. Five companies handle just housing, eight offer both housing and support, and one group called Rocktrust focuses solely on the support side. This comes amid a tough homelessness crisis in the city, where too many people show up needing help but get turned away for lack of space. Right now, the council shels out 40.5 million pounds annually on all kinds of 10 housing from private rentals to shared setups. On top of that, they've got a 581 million pound capital push approved in the spring budget to build more council-owned temspots. Over five years, they're also a year into freezing new council house allocations, redirecting

1:02stock to emergency use. All this aims to ease the pressure, but the crisis rolls on council's hustling to house more without breaking the bank. Stay tuned as they roll it out. That wraps Edinburgh news today, brought to you with AI.