Housing quality
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.
Get the future of energy right
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Video
Date published: 2020
Energy – electricity, heating and transport fuel – is crucial for the modern Scotland we live in. But it can also be one of our biggest threats if we don’t get them right. It can harm our environment and play a major role in causing the climate crisis. ‘Energy inequality’ can harm the health of those who can’t afford to heat their homes. Scotland is one of the few countries in Europe which does not own its energy publicly and the only one that doesn’t own its own National Grid.
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21 For 21: The Climate Change Actions Scotland Needs Now
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
21 Policies that would enable Scotland to meet our responsibilities as laid out by the 2021 IPCC Sixth Assessment Report
Alienating, insecure and unaffordable: Living in Scotland’s private rented sector
Author / Creator: Ben Wray
Media type: Assessment report
Date published: October 2017
Young people are most affected by the growth of the private rental sector. It is insecure. They are more separated from the community than in social housing. The quality of the private rental sector housing is inferior in general.
The Rent Controls Scotland Needs
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
Rent controls designed around a points-based system linked to the quality and amenities of a property and attached to the property rather than the lease would provide a just rental provision.
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.
Good Houses For All
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
This is a model for building an unlimited number of houses for social rent on a zero-subsidy basis using the Scottish National Investment Bank.
Housing For A Better Nation
Author / Creator: Sarah Glynn
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: August 2014
Good housing needs more than good housing policy. Housing policy needs to be part of wider social changes towards a more equal, community-centred, environmentally sustainable society.