Some 200 households with young people were accommodated in unsuitable accommodation by the council at the start of this month, according to a report for councillors.

And almost 1,000 households total were in unsuitable accommodation, including 20 families with children.

It comes as Edinburgh enters the sixth month of its suspension of council housing allocations , which is aimed at tempering the homelessness crisis the city faces.

Only those presenting to the council as homeless are presently able to get allocated a council house, with very few exceptions.

And despite the efforts, August saw 427 instances of the city being unable to house homeless people, coming from 217 households.

The stark figures come from a report before the city’s Housing, Homelessness and Fair Work committe

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