House prices
Answer:
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
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.
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.