After 18 years of building 40% more affordable homes than England and 70% more than Wales, SNP maintains level of starts at nearly TWICE that of last Labour government and exceeds 2032 target by a third

By Professor John Robertson, OBA The Herald today above. The facts: For 2025, the SNP Government has funded 5 313 new affordable home starts to a level down from a peak of 11 158 in 2021 but above the level before 2014 and still almost twice that of the last Labour government in Scotland, only 3 100. AND: According to the latest official statistics from the Scottish Government, as reported in the Quarterly Housing Statistics update to June 2025, Scotland has delivered a total of 140,346 affordable homes since 2007. This includes 100,064 homes for social rent, with the rest for … Continue reading After 18 years of building 40% more affordable homes than England and 70% more than Wales, SNP maintains level of starts at nearly TWICE that of last Labour government and exceeds 2032 target by a third