Social housing
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.
A Living Rent for Scotland’s Private Tenants
Author / Creator: Gordon Maloney
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: September 2015
Living rents are necessary for social justice. They should reflect the value of the property. They should be capped by a rent affordability index. Indefinite tenancies should be the norm. Hardship should be a defence in relation to evictions. Initial rents should be set against a points system to reflect the value of the property. Rent increases should be capped at a rent affordability index. Create a Scottish Living Rent Commission to oversee these principles.
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.
Better than This
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2021
We must emerge from the Covid pandemic in a way that
Fixes the problems raised by the crisis.
Fixes the problems evident before the crisis and makes us resilient.
Implements a green new deal.
Establishes a new democracy.
Begins a national care service.
Starts land reform.
Creates a housing revolution.
Controls our own energy.
Provides better banking
Focus on independence.