Opinion

To mark today's International Human Rights Day, ARK Consultancy assistant directors Kirsty Wells and Luke Beard share some thoughts on what it takes to provide habitable homes in Scotland.

Scottish Housing Regulator board member Helen Trouten Torres details the November in-person meeting of the Tenants Together (Scotland) Liaison Group. The meeting opened with a Q&A session featuring SHR chair Garry Coutts and chief executive Michael Cameron. This provided members with an opportun

UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) director Professor Ken Gibb discusses the two housing announcements in last week's Autumn Budget from Rachel Reeves. Two housing tax announcements were made in the Budget last week. Only one of the two had a large-scale reaction in the media and f

Dr Andrew Robert Watson builds on recent research to look forward at the trajectory of the Scottish private rented sector over the next 30 years.

City of Edinburgh Council leader Cllr Jane Meagher believes more affordable homes could be delivered through improved partnership approaches. Scotland's housing crisis isn't just a statistic.

Glasgow-born architect and Strathclyde graduate Paul Mugnaioni, who founded Quality Street Ltd in 1987, effectively pioneered the Build to Rent model in the UK years ahead of the current institutional wave, writes Iain Thompson. When people talk about the rise of Build to Rent (BTR), they usually pi

Professor Kenneth Gibb from the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) highlights a new report that sets out recommendations for a shared understanding of housing affordability. What does it mean to say the cost of housing is affordable or unaffordable? When are rents charged truly aff

Brian Hutcheson, partner in Dentons’ Glasgow office and chair of the Investment Property Forum in Scotland, comments on the implications of the Housing (Scotland) Bill once Royal Assent is received and highlights some practical considerations for those operating in the sector. The Housing (Sco

Cruden Homes MD Fraser Lynes highlights one of Glasgow's more ambitious regeneration stories, King's View, and shares what this tells us about the housing challenges faced today. Over the past 15 years, the south side of Glasgow has witnessed one of the city’s most ambitious regeneration stori

Dr James Patrick Ferns from the Dalmarnock Village Housing Campaign responds to David Bookbinder’s article on 'Navigating the political correctness around damp and mould'. Let’s get right to the point, damp and mould issues are NOT merely the result of residents’ ‘lifestyle c

PATH (Scotland) CEO Samina Ansari shares reflections from a workshop on promoting anti-racism in the housing sector, and encourages future engagement across the sector. Last week, PATH (Scotland) and CEMVO Scotland co-hosted an online workshop, Promoting Anti-Racism in Scotland’s Social Housin

The Scottish Government declared a housing emergency in May 2024, acknowledging that Scotland lacked sufficient housing supply to meet demand. This was partly self-inflicted, with the government cutting its affordable housing building supply programme and imposing rent controls without exemption, wh

Councillor Lezley Marion Cameron writes about the challenges facing Edinburgh, and the work being done to tackle them. In Edinburgh, our population continues to grow at speed and for some years now, housing demand has been significantly outstripping supply.  

Hans Mitchell discusses the critically slow progress of Scotland's National Cladding Remediation Programme, which, despite increased government funding and a high demand for building safety assessments, is severely hampered by a national shortage of qualified fire safety engineers to carry out the e

Social justice researcher Kamila Feddek discusses the key findings from a series of policy workshops focused on Renfrewshire, outlining the interconnected challenges of housing, the cost-of-living crisis, care, health, and employment, alongside solutions proposed by local stakeholders. Between Novem