From STV yesterday:
Council moves ahead with £674m plan for thousands of affordable homes in Glasgow. The council’s ‘ambitious’ plans could see 12,000 additional homes and city centre commercial conversions if funding is made available Glasgow City Council is moving ahead with plans to build thousands of affordable homes across the city at a cost of £674m.
According to council bosses, the “ambitious programme” will deliver 6,500 new homes, with another 12,000 to be delivered should funds be made available. It is part of the council’s strategic housing investment programme (SHIP) for 2027 to 2032, which addresses the city’s housing crisis.
In addition to new affordable homes, the council will assist social landlords in acquiring 430 social homes, helping to reduce homelessness and the number of people in temporary accommodation, and tackling child poverty.
Manchester and Liverpool have claims to build more affordable homes too but, affordable in Glasgow and affordable in Manchester or Liverpool, or anywhere in England actually, can be very different things as that category is relative to the cost of private rent more generally in each city.
The problem with affordable rent is that in many places, it’s simply not affordable. Shelter has carried out new analysis estimating that in 42% of local authorities in England, so-called affordable rent is in fact unaffordable. This contrasts to social rent, which is affordable in virtually all local authorities (98%) in the country.
So, on completions how does Glasgow compare?
Glasgow City has 110 000 social rent 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
Manchester? 814 social rent homes. Glasgow has 135 times as many.
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10 November article on BBC website via BBC Verify:
“Why is Scotland’s housing shortage getting worse”?
Article written by , not one , but three of their BBC employees – Phil Sim, Andrew Picken and Aimee Stanton.
This was a excessively long article .
In July 2026 the BBC , via BBC verify , wrote another article with only one employee credited as having had an input, Ben Chu:
“Can Andy Burnham solve the housing crisis” ?
This was in relation to the housing position within England.
Two different headlines , same news source (BBC) , same topic (housing) where one headline is presented as if the ‘problem’ is unsolvable (Scotland) while the other offers hope that it could possibly be solved by a new PM (England).
That’s how you do propaganda that is driven by bias.
It is not really that subtle once you know what they, the BBC, are truly capable of as a repeated type of behaviour.
As when it comes to them framing a political story , it is obvious that the chosen narrative used by the BBC is dependent on who it is that they are trying to protect (which is any UK party – but that protection excludes The English Green party led by Polanski) and also who it is that they are trying to damage politically (mostly the SNP in Scotland).
Liz S
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