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Professor John Robertson OBA

Thanks again to Dottie for alerting me to this:

In the Guardian today:

England will sell off more than eight times as many council homes in 2025-26 as were constructed the previous year, research has found.

Right to buy is depleting council housing stock more quickly than public housing can be replaced, forcing people to spend more money on private market rents and obtain less secure tenancies, a report from the thinktank Common Wealth finds.

Its analysis of government data in England found that 38,170 social homes and 2,850 council homes were constructed by the government in 2023-24. In 2024-25, 2,260 council homes were built. There were 13,966 sell-offs of council houses through right to buy in 2023-24 and 8,656 in 2024-25. It is estimated that 18,500 council homes will be sold off in 2025-26 – more than eight times more than the number built in 2024-25.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/aug/20/england-to-sell-eight-times-the-council-homes-it-built-last-year-report-finds

So with a tenth of the population, Scotland’s councils might have been expected to build 285 and 226 in those years?

In 2023/24, Scottish councils built 1 929 homes and in the following year, 1 698, around 8 times as many pro rata.

https://www.gov.scot/publications/housing-statistics-for-scotland-new-house-building/

No council houses have been sold in Scotland since 2016.