On Thursday 16th March, the Scottish Government released two sets of poverty statistics, on how many people live in poverty and on how many people live in ‘persistent poverty’, in other...
Category: Policy
Letting Agent Plus: bringing both sides together to help sustain private tenancies
With 14% of all households in Scotland now calling the private rented sector home compared with just 5% back in 1999, more people than ever are looking to the private rented sector for long...
Why we must protect housing benefit for 18-21 year olds
On a quiet Friday afternoon, the DWP laid draft regulations to end automatic entitlement to housing benefit for 18-21 year olds. Worryingly, these regulations are due to be implemented...
Why we shouldn’t ditch affordable housing requirements for ‘Build to rent’
There is a real need for new house building in Scotland. Housebuilding levels have remained stubbornly low since the global financial crisis and many thousands of people are still on...
Health and fuel poverty: The catalogue of Scottish schemes aiming to tackle the risks
There has been a lot of attention recently on fuel poverty, and 748,000 fuel poor households marked a failed target to eradicate fuel poverty by November 2016. Two major reports were...