Scotland's housing emergency: a timeline

Primary Author or Creator:
Shelter Scotland
Publisher:
Shelter Scotland
Alternative Published Date
2024
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Type of Resource:
Article
Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)
1pp
Fast Facts

The housing emergency in Scotland has never just been about houses – it’s about people.

It’s about the family struggling to meet next month’s mortgage payment. The young family renting a rundown flat, wondering if they’ll ever be able to afford a home of their own. This is about the children living in temporary accommodation, forced to change schools every time they move. These are today's struggles.

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Read about how our housing emergency has played out, decade after decade and you'll see the same kind of worries, the same void that comes with not having a place to call home. The slums might be gone now, but there's the same lack of affordable, decent homes in Scotland.

Scotland is still in a housing emergency.

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