How can Scotland's skyrocketing housing prices be brought back down to earth?

A row of homes in the Morningside area of Edinburgh, Scotland

Part six of our series on the cost of living crisis ...

THE cost of housing has been the aspect of the cost of living crisis which has perhaps been debated the least but what we spend on rent or on the mortgage makes up the largest single item of household spending. No assessment of living costs is complete without paying due attention to the price of the home we live in.