It’s six months now since the bedroom tax hit Scotland’s social housing tenants and as its full impact becomes clearer by the day, sadly, it’s living up to the worst of expectations.
Category: Policy
What’s in a number?
More than 100 years ago Mark Twain commented that “facts are stubborn things but statistics are pliable”. Add a layer of media manipulation, public affairs spin and the tweet and retweet...
Right to buy: the beginning of the end
The announcement today by Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, that the new housing bill will contain proposals to bring to an end the right to buy, has made me feel quite old.
Building on targets
In Scotland we are at the lowest level of housebuilding in over 60 years. In 2012, across all sectors, 14,877 homes were built. We need to look all the way back to 1947 to find a lower...
Cause and effect
Despite strong evidence, good arguments and well structured (well we would say that!) campaigns, sometimes, regrettably, bad policy is taken forward. Over the past eighteen months Shelter...