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Professor John Robertson OBA
The Herald has an exploitative image of someone on the streets for their story today. This does not represent the vast majority of the 'homeless' who are in temporary accommodation.
Martin Williams in the Herald this morning has:
Scotland’s housing emergency: Why can’t ministers fix it? Scotland has lost nearly 90,000 private rental homes since before the pandemic, deepening a housing emergency that sees more than 40,000 homelessness applications every year. New figures show landlords are quitting the market at a rate of 350 a month since the Scottish Government declared a housing emergency in May 2024.
I’m guessing that this is another feed from Shelter’s Labour-supporting elite and utterly ill-informed.
Inform me?
There ARE fewer landlords in Scotland but this hides the fact that there are nevertheless MORE places to rent
From Housing statistics: Scottish Landlord Register data published today, we can see that the number of registered landlords in Scotland has fallen slightly, by 1.1% or around 2 000, but the number of registered properties available to rent has grown steadily over the last three years, by 3.2% or around 11 000. https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-landlord-register-data/
New figures show landlords are quitting the market at a rate of 350 a month? That would be nearly 4 000 in 2024 but only 1 500 have told anyone other than his source.
House building, in 2024 is 25% up on the lowest level in 2013 and far higher than in Labour Wales
From Housing Statistics for Scotland Quarterly Update: New Housebuilding and Affordable Housing Supply to end September 2024, new starts are at the lowest in a decade but completions, actual building, is still 25% up on the lowest level in 2013.
Easily found in the same document, Scotland’s leading position in the UK and regularly building twice as many as in Labour-run Wales:
Source: https://www.gov.scot/publications/quarterly-housing-statistics-december-2024/documents/
SNP now building nearly 50 times as many affordable homes as in last days of Labour
In the last 5 years of the Labour/Lib Dem government, from 2002 to 2007, only 371 homes for affordable rent were built.
In the last 5 years of the SNP Government, 2019 to 2024, 18 215 were built.
That’s an astonishing contrast, 49.1 times as many, revealing clearly that the SNP, on this as on so many matters, has replaced the Labour Party as the party of the people.
Source: https://www.gov.scot/publications/housing-statistics-for-scotland-new-house-building/
SNP-run Glasgow City builds more than SIX times as many affordable homes as Labour-run Birmingham City thanks to £94 million from SNP Government
In 2023/2024:
Glasgow City Council’s Affordable Housing Supply Programme (AHSP) helped to build over 1,000 [1 011] additional affordable homes in the city in the past year. The original £78.687million grant from the Scottish Government was bolstered during the year by an additional £11.544million to focus on Strategic Acquisitions, and a further £3.825m from the Scottish Government to a final budget of £94.056million.
Birmingham City has nearly twice the population [1.16m] , thus revenue, of Glasgow City [622k], so all things being equal, might be expected to have built at least 2 000 new affordable homes, in the same year, but only built 312, between 6 and 7 times fewer:
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What figures are they using? I can’t find any data to support the 90k drop.
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Nor me. They might just be using their own estimates.
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Agreed John, with but one exception!
THERE IS NO SCOTTISH ‘labour’
There’s NEVER been a SCOTTISH Labour Party REGISTERED IN SCOTLAND
There was once a Scottish Workers’ Party,
which because they were working too hard and successfully for and behalf of Scottish workers, were ‘invited’ to join together with a foreign ENGLISH Party, which eventually became Labour.
The SCOTTISH WORKERS’ PARTY WAS SUBSUMED by that foreign English Party (sound familiar) and that was the end of
REAL SCOTTISH PARTY FIGHTING FOR SCOTLAND AND HER PEOPLE
That RED, now BLUE ‘labour’ Party was and remains
REGISTERED IN ENGLAND.
There are only FOREIGN ENGLISH ‘labour’, tory, libdem Parties
and now ‘reformeUK’ COMPANY
BRANCH OFFICES IN SCOTLAND
All of whom bow to FOREIGN ENGLISH ‘everything’!
Let’s not aid them, in FALSELY passing themselves off as anything other than what they are FOREIGN ENGLISH PARTIES!
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I hate the way the Herald print’s this sort of subtly misleading stuff and I will never buy their rag but you also say you’re guessing the Herald quote came from Shelter. I’m a long-term regular supporter of Shelter, and, if you can provide any evidence for your guess, I shall write to them asking for an explanation, with the warning that depending on their response I may be reducing or even withdrawing my support. Clearly there’s no point in my doing so based on a second-hand guess.
Roger Colkett
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Roger, as a long-time, monthly-donation supporter of Shelter Scotland, I withdrew my monitory support for exactly the same reason.
Totally biased in, what was their, output and outlook.
I will no longer donate to anything that has any foreign English Party bias.
Of course, that’s dismissed but continues.
Therefore, my support will remain withdrawn, as long as Shelter bias exists!
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Please, can you give me any examples of their bias etc?
I’ve been rereading their February 2025 report “In Their Own Words – Children’s Experiences in Temporary Accommodation” and I couldn’t find any example there.
Take the following two paragraphs from the foreword to the report:
“Although these discoveries are horrifying, in the
context of the managed decline of Scotland’s housing
system over the last decade, they are not surprising.
The Scottish Government has so far failed to tackle
the housing emergency, and their decision to drop
their promised Human Rights Bill, which would have
enshrined the right to a home in Scots Law, was a
devastating blow. Those in power at all levels have
chosen to pursue damaging social policies for the
best part of two decades and displayed a poverty of
ambition in failing to deliver the radical, progressive
social changes we need.
This has led to a generation of children being actively
harmed by that which is supposed to keep them
safe. This research shows clearly that it is now more
important than ever that all levels of government
and civil society tackle the housing emergency
and protect thousands of Scotland’s children from
further harm. There needs to be increased and
sustained investment for family-sized social homes,
more emphasis placed on quality and suitability of
temporary accommodation, and better support for
those children in temporary accommodation.”
These paragraphs are certainly critical of the Scottish Government, but how can they be said to be biased?
Things may be worse in England but that doesn’t mean we should reject criticism of the situation in Scotland or fail to accept that more needs to be done here.
Roger
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