Disease-carrying rats and bugs swarm Scots social housing as tenants face 'systematic failures'

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Scotland's poorest renters are seeing an invasion of disease-carrying pests including rats, cockroaches and bed bugs invade their social housing homes.A new shock report has revealed that insects and rodents have swarmed into homes since 2019.

The investigation carried out by Glasgow Live has discovered that Glasgow has seen reports double - making it the pest capital of the country.A Freedom of Information Request sent to every Scots council and housing association, shows that reports have majorly increased from 22,967 to 31,557 between 2019 and 2023 across Scotland.

In Glasgow numbers shot from 4383 to 7790. However it is feared that the true number is expected to be much higher with multiple housing associations and councils either not holding the same data or declining to release it.According to reports Glasgow City Council is among those local authorities who don't collect data on social housing reports.

That is despite multiple housing associations telling residents to report directly to the council. The council says that across the city the number of pests has sky rocketed from 10,871 to 12,799.