Rental Housing
Answer:
Rent needs to be indexed to affordability. Homelessness needs to be tackled. Rented housing both private and public should be energy efficient and at affordable levels. Legislation is being implemented to secure quality housing for new and existing buildings by 2040.
Full answer here: Private and rented housing plans for Scotland
Answer:
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?
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
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 New Deal For Tenants – Consultation Response
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: consultation response
Date published: 2022
This consultation response focuses on tenants' rights.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
Resilient Scotland; Part One
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2021
The Scottish National Investment Bank should act as a bank and capitalise from sources such as pension funds. It should lend to the public and the private sector. Public procurement should have the public policy goal of supporting Scottish business and achieving the maximum number of manufacturing jobs.