Stark findings on Scotland’s mounting social housing crisis require the urgent attention of SNP ministers. The Solace report, by council chiefs, warns the country faces an “emergency” situation and a “critical lack of capacity”.
Staggeringly, nearly 250,000 people in Scotland are on waiting lists for a council house – but only 26,000 were allocated one last year. It’s a shocking dereliction of duty that we have enough people to fill Hampden Park more than four times over left in cruel housing limbo.
This is an unsustainable position, as the report points out, and without action we face a growing homelessness crisis. What’s gone wrong, of course, is an alarming shortfall of available, affordable homes.
