Housing
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Current Scottish government policy is to build 10,000 affordable homes over 10 years. This is below demand, so indicates there will be continuing price increases.
Full answer here: House building policy of Scottish Government
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Scotland’s housing market could offer people a quality public rental option. There is a financial model which would allow the Scottish National Investment Bank to finance high quality housing for rent.
Full answer here: How can Scotland provide adequate rented housing?
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.
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.
Bays of Harris Feasibility Study
Author / Creator: Bays of Harris Steering Group
Media type: Feasibility Study
Date published: 2022
The feasibility study of the community by out of the Bays of Harris
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.
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
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.
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.
All of Our Futures
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: Book
Date published:
The idea that ‘Scotland is ageing’ has become embedded in our politics but is couched in language suggesting that this is a negative feature of society. ... [We need] to tackle the real consequences of an ageing society overall and how to adapt so that we treat ageing as a natural and valued part of all of our lives instead of a regrettable and perhaps humiliating one.
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.
The political economy of and practical policies for inclusive growth—a case study of Scotland
Author / Creator: Donald Houston
Media type: Academic Paper
Date published:
This indetifies four key policy areas for ‘inclusive growth’: skills, transport and housing for young people; city-regional governance; childcare; and place-making.
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.
Resilient Scotland; Part Two
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
Creating a resilient Scotland covers the next Scottish Parliament. It provides the detail of how the transformation envisaged can be achieved quickly, with a closer look at our economy, society and democracy.
Land Reform: Re-Shaping Scotland’s Social Landscape
Author / Creator: Dylan Howel
Media type: News Item
Date published:
Scotland has one of the most concentrated patterns of private land ownership in the developed world. Just 450 people own over half of the private land in Scotland. This entitlement has survived un-challenged for 500 years, a privilege that has its roots in royal favours and aristocratic archetypes
The Future of Low Carbon Heat For Off-Gas Buildings
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
The primary barrier to the roll-out of low carbon heat is financial. Efficient schemes will have to be government financed. Biofuels may play a significant role in rural heating where they can seamlessly replace off-grid heating without the need to install new infrastructure.
The Common Home Plan – Technical Report
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
This Technical Report is an annex to The Common Home Plan, a part of Our Common Home – A Green New Deal for Scotland. The fact that this book represents the broadest and most detailed Green New Deal blueprint yet published for any country means that it covers a great many of topics in detail and thus draws upon a vast body of literature and other previously published work.
The Common Home Plan
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
There are a number of policy tools which can be used to encourage transformative changes to our lifestyles. However, it should be noted that most of these policy tools are designed to enact structural change rather than individual change and, again, it must not be read that these can simply be introduced into a free market economy as if they will succeed in shifting those markets. They won't, at least not as a result of individual behaviours. The Plan details the the changes needed.
Housekeeping Scotland: Discussion paper outlining a new agenda for housing
Author / Creator: Malcolm Fraser
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: October 2016
The United Kingdom’s housing policies have been ideologically-driven, and have led to the current crisis of strangled investment, under-provision and a general flow of power and money from civic society to the wealthy. UK housing has suffered greatly from its politicians’ fixation with a single form of home and tenure, the mortgage-backed and privately-owned home.