The effects of the bedroom tax will soon come home to roost. Housing benefit cuts will soon become a harsh reality for over 100,000 tenants in Scotland, putting many at risk of eviction and...
Category: Policy
Raising the question of rents
Back in November, the law was clarified around the fees that letting agents and landlords charge to tenants. It is now absolutely clear that all fees including admin fees, reservation fees...
The Devil’s in the Detail
Last week the Scottish Government released the quarterly update of the official homelessness statistics for Scotland. Unsurprisingly, as a homelessness charity working in Scotland, the...
Edwin Morgan memorial lecture: Housing and Social Justice in a Progressive Scotland
On Tuesday 27 November 2012 the First Minister Alex Salmond delivered a lecture on the subject of housing and social justice. The lecture took place at the Scottish National Gallery and was...
Make a House a Home
There are 23000 long-term empty homes across Scotland. If these properties were brought back into use as affordable housing it would have a dramatic effect on the amount of people who are...