Front page in the Herald, a one-year drop in affordable housing output and Scottish Labour allowed to suggest they are in a position to criticise.
From the impartial Grampian Online in January 2023:
Scotland has continued the trend of outperforming the rest of the UK in delivering affordable housing.
In the last financial year 9757 homes have been built for social rent, mid-market rent, and affordable ownership.
Scotland continues to outperform the rest of the UK by building 13.9 homes per 10,000 population, compared with 8.0 in Wales, 9.7 in England and 13.0 per 10,000 in Northern Ireland.
https://www.grampianonline.co.uk/news/scotland-outperforms-uk-in-building-affordable-housing-298925/
13.9 per 10 000 is 74% better than the 8 in Labour Wales
The historical trend?
Labour’s performance when they were in power?
Looking specifically at social rent completions, from 2000-01 to 2006-07 Scottish Labour delivered 28,988 homes. In the period since the SNP assumed power, 52,558 homes have been delivered.
This works out as an average of 4,141 houses delivered per year under the Labour administration. Under the SNP, there have been 4,778 delivered on average each year.
https://theferret.scot/snp-social-rent-labour/
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
In all honesty, I don’t know a single person who buys a newspaper these days. Any paper. But, as always, it’s the headline. The few who do, how many read past the headline? And of course, it the gives the B.B.C, and its acolytes, the excuse, not that they need one, to amplify the front page.
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I had to visit Menzies late afternoon yesterday and when I passed the newsstand it was still laden with Sunday papers. The biggest pile was the Mail on Sunday.
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Menzies? I like it.
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We went to Berwick yesterday.
I always enjoy buying a hard copy of the National in what is technically England.
Doesn’t take much to make me smile.
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An “affordable” housing crisis was inevitable after Thatcher’s Right to Buy scam, council housing stock which had been the bedrock of society was rapidly depleted as the population rose and land pricing escalated for the benefit of speculators.
SG may be doing better than most, but it is still nowhere near enough to solve the demand, and probably never will be until after independence, when we make fundamental changes such as land ownership.
I doubt many pay the slightest attention to ‘Scottish’ Labour’s opinion on anything any more least of all affordable housing, particularly among those old enough to remember their abysmal record on housing when running SG.
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