Can Scotland provide adequate housing?

The number, quality, and variety of housing needed to meet environmental, population and rental vs. owner/occupier requirements to meet needs is questioned.

Housing For A Better Nation

Primary Author or Creator

Sarah Glynn

Alternative Published Date

August 2014

Fast Facts

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, but good housing policy can make an important contribution to those changes.

Housekeeping Scotland: Discussion paper outlining a new agenda for housing

Primary Author or Creator

Malcolm Fraser

Alternative Published Date

October 2016

Fast Facts

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.