Professor John Robertson OBA
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: https://www.housingtoday.co.uk/news/birmingham-city-council-announces-plan-to-use-200-vacant-new-build-homes-for-social-housing/5130643.article#:~:text=During%20phase%20one%20of%20the%20regeneration%20scheme%2C%20four,968%20homes%2C%20312%20were%20designated%20as%20affordable%20housing.
If Labour cannot run a major city how can they be expected to run a country?
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
CLOSE DOWN THIS DIRTY ROTTEN LYING ENGLISH TV CHANNEL
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Yes BBC Scot now in tandem with their London ITN collegues featured a ‘special report’ last night on Glasgow’s apparent housing crises with an interview with a disappointed local resident who cannae get their disabled elderly family member a house because its apparently full of immigrants. Accompanied simply ‘by chance’ a caption of a young man climbing a lampost to attach a saltire flag presumably in support of English racists. To be fair they did mention that Glasgow to their credit has taken in far more immigrants than other UK cities but just to keep stirring the pot the viewer was left with the impression Scotland is not immune to helping desperate people only to the detriment of locals.
I despair I really do.
Robbo
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Who checks, if,indeed anyone, on perceived political bias on Audit Scotlands choices/analyses?
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Just MSM Monitor and me
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It is not just new-builds the SG is funding but bringing empty homes back into use.
This from Google search:
“”ing empty houses back into use through initiatives like the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP) and funding schemes, such as the recent £4 million loan fund that includes grants for local authorities to employ Empty Homes Officers. This effort is a vital part of their strategy, particularly the Housing to 2040 roadmap, to tackle the housing emergency and increase the supply of habitable homes, with over 11,000 homes brought back into use since 2010.””
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Holyrood- we have a problem, then!
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I ccame across this article from 6th August 2025
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/06/spains-housing-crisis-deepens-residents-anger-is-rising
“Millions across Europe are being priced out of housing, with Spain at the heart of the crisis. Euronews’s international correspondent Valérie Gauriat reports from Barcelona, where skyrocketing rents and property speculation are pushing residents to the brink.”
“Since 2010, housing prices in the European Union have surged by over 50% on average, while rents have climbed by 26%. Spain is among the hardest-hit nations, with rents increasing by up to 80% in the past decade.”
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https://www.gov.scot/publications/private-sector-rent-statistics-scotland-2010-to-2024/pages/1-bedroom-properties/
Private Sector Rent Statistics, Scotland, 2010 to 2024
In the Introduction Section it says
“The increase in CPI inflation of 50.0% between 2010 and 2024 is based on the average CPI value across the latest 12 month period October 2023 to September 2024 compared with the average value in the year October 2009 to September 2010.”
While Scotland has almost double the rate of inflation for rent, over the same period, unlike Spain (rest of Europe?) tenants here in Scotland have more rights.
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