Housing
Scotland's housing emergency: a timeline
Author / Creator: Shelter Scotland
Media type: Article
Date published: 2024
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.
Housing Struggles Made the Scottish Working Class
Author / Creator: Aaron Sheridan
Media type: Article
Date published: 2021
Only struggle can advance housing rights, as the history of social class and housing in Scotland shows.
Tenement Town
Author / Creator: Diarmid Mogg
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
Edinburgh Tenements have stories to tell.
LGBTQ+ homelessness: a hidden crisis
Author / Creator: Jennie Kermode
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
Homelessness is a significant problem in the LGBTQ+ community
Rent Is Out Of Control
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2023
When is a rent control not a rent control?
A Gaelic Housing Strategy
Author / Creator: Màrtainn Mac a’ Bhàillidh
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
Màrtainn Mac a’ Bhàillidh explores innovation and action to support gaelic housing in the highlands.
A housing practitioners’ guide to integrating people seeking protection and refugees, 3rd ed
Author / Creator: Grant McPhail
Media type: Guide
Date published: 2021
The guide aims to aid housing practitioners to support the integration of people seeking protection and those recognised as refugees.
A New Deal For Tenants – Consultation Response
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: consultation response
Date published: 2022
This consultation response focuses on tenants' rights.
Cost of Living Bill: research evidence summaries
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
Summarises some of the key research evidence which underpinned the development of the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) Scotland Bill,
Cost of Living Bill: economic background
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
Summarises recent economic trends which informed the development of the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) Scotland Bill
Cost of Living Bill - Key Statistics
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Statistics
Date published: 2022
The key statistics which underpinned the development of the Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) Scotland Bill
Non-domestic buildings - heating systems: research report
Author / Creator: Charlotte Mitchell
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
Case studies on the installation of zero direct emissions heating systems in both new and existing non-domestic buildings show promise for meeting emission targets.
The Highland Clearances, 2022
Author / Creator: Màrtainn Mac a’ Bhàillidh
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
Highland homes are being sold for their values as rental properties, rather than for their value as residences.
A new Deal for Tenants. Common Weal submission to consultation
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: consultation response
Date published:
"The lack of the provision of sufficient numbers of adequate housing is a sign that all is not well ... in the Scottish economy."
Freedom is an Attitude: Land, Craft, and Rebellion in The Highlands
Author / Creator: Craig Brice
Media type: Discussion
Date published:
Description of one family's self-build journey in the Highlands, and how it relates to wider society.
What Scotland needs to do to achieve energy efficient homes.
Author / Creator: Chris Morgan
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
Energy effciency in housing needs to address...a wider range of issues...to solve a broader range of problems such as fuel poverty and bottlenecks due to under-capacity in the National Grid.
The Homelessness Monitor: Scotland 2021
Author / Creator: Beth Watts
Media type: Assessment report
Date published: 2021
Rates of core homelessness are substantially lower in Scotland (0.57% of households) than in England (0.94%) and Wales (0.66%). In March 2021, the numbers in temporary housing stood at over 13,000. This is well above the previous peak of 11,665 a year before.
A new housing settlement
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2020
There is so much wrong with our housing system, from needless homelessness to spiralling costs (which have shut a generation out of housing) to over-mortgaged homeowners struggling financially to the sheer environmental inefficiency of much of the housing we build to the failure to build homes how and where communities need rather than where a developer can make most money.
Housing 2040 Consultation Response
Author / Creator: Malcolm Fraser
Media type: consultation response
Date published:
A good home and community as a human right, is a font of wellbeing. It is not simply an outcome of wealth-creation. To deliver this covers a wide range of policy areas including:
- Existing buildings,
- land and planning,
- regeneration,
- finance,
- leadership,
- diversification,
- technology and materials, and
- tax and wealth.
Scottish Building Regulations: Review of Energy Standards
Author / Creator: Linda Pearson
Media type: consultation response
Date published:
All new buildings in Scotland should be constructed to passive and zero-carbon standards. All buildings should be surveyed immediately and assessed on their maximum feasible retrofitting potential. They should then be scheduled to be retrofitted to that potential in a single project.