By Professor John Robertson OBA
The Herald, today, reads the above graph to say:
Building of homes at lowest in decade amid crisis – Fears over affordable housing
From Housing Statistics for Scotland Quarterly Update: New Housebuilding and Affordable Housing Supply to end September 2024, published yesterday, new starts are at the lowest in a decade but completions, actual building, is still 25% up on the lowest level in 2013.
Not, of course in the Herald report, though easily found in the same document, Scotland’s leading position in the UK and regularly building twice as many as in Labour-run Wales:
As for the fears over affordable housing, Scotland is way ahead:
Source: https://www.gov.scot/publications/quarterly-housing-statistics-december-2024/documents/
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