Housing

Raising the roof: can Scotland’s Housing to 2040 Strategy help as an approach to reduce health inequalities?

Author / Creator: Emma Congreve

Media type: Briefing Paper

Date published: 2025

Scotland can more effectively tackle health inequalities, by acknowledging and responding to key social determinants, such as housing


International Definitions and Measures of ‘Affordable Housing’ and Current Local Practices in Scotland

Author / Creator: Maya Ljubojevic

Media type: Report

Date published: 2025

Scotland is currently experiencing a housing emergency and it is a major concern when it comes to population health and health inequalities.


A Victory for Living Rent

Author / Creator: Lydia Marrow

Media type: Article

Date published: 2025

This October, in a huge win for tenants, a new Scottish Housing Bill was passed in Holyrood


A Housing Practitioner’s Guide to Integrating People Seeking Protection and Refugees

Author / Creator: Grant McPhail

Media type: Guide

Date published: 2021

Housing and integrating migrants and refugees


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.