MPs and councillors repeatedly flagged up concerns about housing asylum seekers in hotels before last week's stabbing attack in Glasgow.
The Home Office was told the policy could not be a “long term” solution and did not have the support of the local council.
UK Ministers were also warned about the “mounting anxiety” over the emotional, mental and physical well-being of asylum seekers in the city.
Six people were injured, including a police officer, in the attack at the Park Inn Hotel in West George Street.
Police have named the man shot by officers during the deadly incident on Friday as Badreddin Abadlla Adam, 28, from Sudan.
In recent months, the company responsible for accommodating asylum seekers has used hotels rather than short term lets.
Mears said the move was necessary because of covid-19 and claimed all the hotels being used provide a good level of accommodation.
However, on May 12th, SNP councillors and MPs in the city wrote to Home Secretary Priti Patel with concerns about the support for asylum seekers.
Nine questions were tabled, including on the use of hotels: “Why were those who were in safe homes where social distancing could take place moved in to hotels? Was this an effort to save money?”
On June 22nd, days before the attack, SNP MP Chris Stephens contacted the Home Office with further concerns.
Writing on behalf of SNP MPs in the city, he wrote: “We urge you to now instruct your accommodation contractor, Mears Group, to accelerate plans to get all people out of these hotels and back into safe residential accommodation. We urge that this is completed by the end of June.”
Stephens also called for a meeting with the Home Office to take place before the end of the month.
“Throughout this pandemic, we have prioritised providing asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute with free and safe accommodation that enables public health guidance to be followed.
“They have access to healthcare and all of their essential living needs and costs are met.”
