Scottish Labour

Scottish Labour has criticised the current state of Scotland’s planning system, calling it “over-stretched and under-resourced” as new figures show the country has the fewest planners per capita in the UK.

Scottish Labour has lodged a motion which aims to protect children’s rights as the number of children in temporary accommodation reaches record levels. In a Parliamentary debate yesterday ahead of stage two of the Housing (Scotland) Bill being considered next month, Scottish Labour housing spo

The Scottish Government’s decision to reduce funding retrofitting work by more than £200 million has "fanned the flames of fuel poverty", according to Scottish Labour.

CIH Scotland has engaged with moves to influence Scottish Labour’s 2026 manifesto by highlighting the vital contribution that housing can make across all of the party's priorities. The Scottish Policy Forum invited views to help shape the party’s priorities ahead of the 2026 Scottish Gov

The Scottish Government’s affordable housing pledge is a “sham” that will actually reduce the number of new builds next year, according to Scottish Labour. In her draft budget for 2025/26, finance secretary Shona Robison set out funding for 8,000 new affordable homes, a figure

New statistics into planning application decisions illustrate a planning service which is under-resourced and ill-equipped to deal with Scotland’s escalating housing emergency, according to sector body Homes for Scotland (HFS). The figures covering the period for the financial year 2023/2024 s

The Scottish Government has avoided defeat on whether it has failed to tackle the country's housing emergency following a vote in the Scottish Parliament yesterday.

Labour will hold a debate in Holyrood this week and move a Parliamentary motion criticising the Scottish Government’s failure to tackle the housing emergency.

The SNP’s failure to plan for the end of temporary rent control has led to rents rising faster in Scotland than in most other parts of the UK, figures obtained by Scottish Labour have indicated. Figures show that average contested rents jumped by 20% following the end of the control period, wi

“You can't do all of the things that people take for granted if you can't get in and out of your house.” In the run-up to the Housing & Social Care Accessibility Summit in Dundee, Jimmy Black and Kieran Findlay discuss the practical housing issues often confronted by people

A new report from The Salvation Army in Scotland is recommending urgent collection of data on the number of people rough sleeping, along with cause-of-death data for anyone who dies while living in temporary accommodation.

Shelter Scotland has urged MSPs to unite and declare a national housing emergency when a motion comes before Holyrood on Wednesday.

Almost 20,000 potential new affordable homes have been lost over the last five years due to the Scottish Government's failings, Scottish Labour has said after it released new analysis on the cumulative impact of declining approvals for new properties. According to the figures, the num

Scottish Labour housing spokesperson, Mark Griffin MSP, has written to the First Minister asking him to make an urgent statement to parliament outlining his plans to address the deteriorating housing emergency in Scotland.

Scottish Labour has unveiled new plans to drive down house prices and support first-time buyers. The party’s proposals include a pledge to reform planning rules to ensure that every new development must sell a proportion of houses at a discounted price.