The housing and homelessness charity has been leading the campaign for local authorities to declare a housing emergency and commit to delivering an action plan to tackle it.

The City Administration Committee, chaired by council leader Susan Aitken, will be asked to acknowledge the “severe pressures” facing the local authority and Health and Social Care Partnership and formally declare that they constitute a housing emergency.

Shelter Scotland pointed to the thousands of children stuck in temporary homeless accommodation, the chronic shortage of social housing, and the unaffordable cost of private renting as evidence of the city’s housing emergency.

Shelter Scotland director, Alison Watson, said: “With nearly 3,000 children having nowhere to call home, an enormous shortage of social housing, an out-of-control private rental market, and rough sleeping once again on the rise, Glasgow is clearly in a housing emergency.

“A chronic lack of social housing is the root cause of Glasgow’s long standing housing emergency, but it’s been exacerbated by the cost-of-living crisis, the pandemic, and the thoughtless, uncaring, policies of the Home Office.

“By acknowledging a housing emergency, councillors will show the people of Glasgow they understand the issues they face every day and recognise the sheer scale of the challenges facing the city.

“The UK and Scottish governments must also shoulder their share of responsibility for Glasgow’s housing emergency, but people in the city are crying out for action and every level of government has a duty to respond.

“However, the declaration of a housing emergency must be just the beginning of a journey for Glasgow – one which ends with everyone in the city having somewhere warm, safe, and secure to call home.”