The motion, which comes as a record-breaking 15,000 Scots are homeless or in temporary accommodation, with the number of rough sleepers on the rise, will read: “That the Parliament agrees Scotland is experiencing a housing emergency.”

It reflects calls from Shelter Scotland to declare a national housing emergency in the wake of the City of Edinburgh Council declaring a housing emergency in the city at the start of the month.

Scottish Labour has called on the SNP and the Greens to support the motion and address the issues facing housing in their upcoming Housing Bill.

Housing spokesperson Mark Griffin said: “After a year of SNP turmoil and the Tory mortgage bombshell, this motion is long overdue.

“In the past year, homelessness has hit a record high, mortgages have soared, and under the SNP new home building has plummeted. Scots are being left with nowhere to turn while they give more and more of their paycheque just to have somewhere to live.

“Scots are crying out for support with this crisis, but nothing is being offered. The SNP must heed Labour’s call and declare a housing emergency across Scotland.”

Tenants’ union Living Rent is backing calls for MSPs to declare a national housing emergency, and continue emergency protections against evictions and rent controls to bring down rents.

With the rent cap and eviction ban only in place until March 2024, Living Rent said there is a need for the Scottish Parliament to recognise the “tidal wave” of evictions and rent increases that face tenants and legislate to protect them before it’s too late.

Aditi Jehangir, secretary of Living Rent, said: “Tenants are still struggling. The Scottish Government needs to declare a housing emergency if it is ever going to tilt the balance towards a fairer society.

“A failure to build social housing, escalating private rents and a shortage of temporary accommodation have created a perfect storm for tenants.

“Tenants need action in the form of protections before the end of the rent cap and eviction ban in March or else we will see a tidal wave of evictions and rent increases.”

Housing minister Paul McLennan has tabled an amendment to the motion to leave out from the word “agrees” and instead insert “recognises that Scotland is facing significant pressures with homelessness and temporary accommodation, and therefore agrees that the Scottish Government should build on its track record of delivering 123,985 affordable homes since 2007 by delivering 110,000 affordable homes by 2032; considers that it should continue to work on the recommendations of the Temporary Accommodation Task and Finish Group and recently published Rural and Islands Housing Action Plan; further considers that it should continue to develop its proposals for a Housing Bill in 2023, with stronger tenants’ rights and powers to prevent homelessness; acknowledges Scottish Government support for local authorities in developing targeted plans to address local housing needs; regrets the disastrous UK Government “mini-budget” of 2022, which has left the housing market struggling against inflationary pressures, as well as the devastating impact of Brexit on construction costs and workforce challenges, and calls on the UK Government to immediately uprate Local Housing Allowance, end the spare room subsidy, more commonly known as the bedroom tax, and reverse the planned real-terms reduction to Scotland’s capital budget.”

An amendment from Scottish Conservative MSP Graham Simpson added that the motion “calls on the Scottish Government to tackle the issues that have caused the current crisis in its forthcoming Housing Bill”.

The debate is due to begin at 2pm.