Professor John Robertson OBA Thanks, once more, to Dottie for alerting us to this: In the Guardian yesterday: According to the housing charity Shelter, in the 12 months leading up to March 2025, Liverpool city council received 2,048 applications for homelessness support, a 25% increase on the previous year. The most recent data shows 12,764 households on the city’s social housing waiting list. But one figure is particularly shocking: reflecting the fact that most local authorities now lack either the means or will to build anything more than paltry amounts of new social housing, the city’s “additional social rent dwellings” in 2023-24 totalled – … Continue reading SNP-run Glasgow City built 110 times more social rent homes than Labour-run Liverpool last year