I can possibly see the potential of using Hamilton Lodge for this purpose - but why 118 Canonbie Road?

You'd have thought they could sell this on the open market and be able to afford to buy maybe as many as 3 flats in a less pricey area with the proceeds.

Unless there's something I'm not aware of, it seems to me that housing a homeless family in this sort of acccommodation might even be construed as misuse of public funds!

As for Hamilton Lodge, I'd love to see it be sympathetically restored and extended to make e.g. flats and, again, I'd have thought that sale on open marlet would produce funding to provide b&b accommodation ten times over.