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?
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.
The Land of Scotland and the Common Good - The Land Reform Review Group 10 Years Later
Author / Creator: Andy Wightman
Media type: Article
Date published:
Ten years ago today, the Land Reform Review Group (LRRG) published its Final Report.
Own Yersel Scotland: Reimagining the future – Keynote Address by Michael Russell
Author / Creator: Michael Russell
Media type: Article
Date published:
Reflections on land reform and a vision for the future
Scottish city named the cheapest for first-time buyers
Author / Creator: Andrew Smart
Media type: Article
Date published: 2024
A SCOTTISH city has been named the cheapest place in the UK for first-time buyers
A home is not a luxury - it's a fundamental human right
Author / Creator: Assa Samake-Roman
Media type: Article
Date published: 2024
More people are finding themselves losing their grip on stable housing, resulting in a surge in homelessness
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
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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.