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.