The Ferret, happiest when in synch with the anti-SNP media, launches its latest campaign to investigate what the Scottish Government has achieved, or not, on social housing in the context of the far-right violence in Glasgow. BBC Scotland, of course, knows already that it’s our housing crisis and not the UK Government’s immigration crisis to blame.

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Here at Talking-up Scotland, we’ve done this to death, but just for them:

How can there be an affordable housing ‘crisis’ in Scotland when we beat the building target and Labour just give up in England?

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 other affordable rent and ownership options. These figures reflect government-supported completions through the Affordable Housing Supply Programme and other initiatives, marking progress toward the current target of 110,000 affordable homes by 2032 (of which 29,680 have been completed so far). The data shows Scotland leading the UK in affordable housing delivery per head of population since 2007, with over 40% more than England and 70% more than Wales.

See that 140 346 above?

The iNews and the Herald in October 2025, had these:

So, UK Labour giving up and SNP target exceeded already?

Sources:

https://www.gov.scot/publications/quarterly-housing-statistics-september-2025/documents/

Scottish Government Housing Statistics (New Housebuilding and AHSP Tables, historical series from 2000–2025)

https://www.gov.scot/collections/housing-statistics/

And on Glasgow where the issue centres:

SNP-run Glasgow City build 110 times more social rent homes than Labour-run Liverpool as Guardian predicts social housing lists ‘would take 119 years to clear’

Glasgow City has 110 000 social rented homes compared to 12 764 in Liverpool. https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/12942/Social-housing

In 2023/2024, Glasgow City Council completed 558 new social rent homes, down from the average of 760 per year between 2018 and 2023, compared to only 5 in Liverpool. https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/10245/Housing-Emergency

Liverpool’s population is 510 000 compared to Glasgow’s 622 000, only one quarter larger, yet Glasgow has 9 times as many and built more than 100 times as many, social rent homes in 2023/2024

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