Shelter Scotland said the Scottish Government has its housing priorities “badly wrong”.
A charity has accused the Scottish Government of deliberately neglecting social housing after the number of local authority new builds completed dropped by 23 per cent in a year.
There was a nine per cent increase in private-led new build completions, and housing association new builds increased by 18 per cent.The number of new builds being started decreased by 12 per cent across all sectors. This was the lowest annual figure since 2016. “No minister can claim ignorance of what that means; it means more children with nowhere to call home, it means more people trapped in miserable temporary accommodation, and it means Scotland’s housing emergency continuing to devastate lives.
Sally Thomas, SFHA chief executive, said: “Today’s figures show that the number of social homes that were built this quarter are at the lowest level since mid-2020, during the height of the pandemic.“Last week’s Programme for Government was described by the First Minister as ‘unashamedly anti-poverty and pro-growth’.
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