You can apply everywhere else but your chance of getting one is the same. No very high
I am so confused at how Scotland has a housing crisis. Scotlands population has only grown by tiny percentages each year for ages. Since the year I was born (2002) Scotlands population has only grown by around 400,000 and the vast majority of that will be younger than 18 meaning they are still bairns so living at home. In the same time I’ve seen the areas I grew up in become unrecognisable as more and more houses are built everywhere. The woods I used to play in was turned into houses, the abandoned building I used to sneak into to drink with my friends was pulled down and turned into flats. I understand its probably far more complicated than it seems but I really don’t understand how the housing situation in Scotland got so severe that we can’t even house our own people when in the space of over twenty years our population has grown so little and they have seemingly built houses everywhere and anywhere they can fit them.
How many flats in Edinburgh are airbnb’s? The short-term rental market was nothing like it is now 20 years ago. Every one if them has the capability of being a family home.
It would also be interesting to know the number of council properties now compared to 20 or 30 years ago.
If you hold Gold or Gold priority ….. what the hell, when did housing for the vulnerable become ‘priority boarding’ 😳
Keep importing people though amirite
One of the issues is they are building lots of homes in places where the population is decreasing and not enough in the central belt.
Another issue is building a house is absurdly expensive now. When I started working at a Housing Association in Scotland about 15 years ago you could build a 3 bed house for 60-70k depending on how many you were doing.
Now it’s 160 at least. In just 15 years. While social rents have (rightly) been kept low. The economics have really gotten to a point where a Housing Association has to sell over half the properties they build to make a new development work. 10 years ago it was 20% sold.
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You can apply everywhere else but your chance of getting one is the same. No very high
I am so confused at how Scotland has a housing crisis. Scotlands population has only grown by tiny percentages each year for ages. Since the year I was born (2002) Scotlands population has only grown by around 400,000 and the vast majority of that will be younger than 18 meaning they are still bairns so living at home. In the same time I’ve seen the areas I grew up in become unrecognisable as more and more houses are built everywhere. The woods I used to play in was turned into houses, the abandoned building I used to sneak into to drink with my friends was pulled down and turned into flats. I understand its probably far more complicated than it seems but I really don’t understand how the housing situation in Scotland got so severe that we can’t even house our own people when in the space of over twenty years our population has grown so little and they have seemingly built houses everywhere and anywhere they can fit them.
How many flats in Edinburgh are airbnb’s? The short-term rental market was nothing like it is now 20 years ago. Every one if them has the capability of being a family home.
It would also be interesting to know the number of council properties now compared to 20 or 30 years ago.
If you hold Gold or Gold priority ….. what the hell, when did housing for the vulnerable become ‘priority boarding’ 😳
Keep importing people though amirite
One of the issues is they are building lots of homes in places where the population is decreasing and not enough in the central belt.
Another issue is building a house is absurdly expensive now. When I started working at a Housing Association in Scotland about 15 years ago you could build a 3 bed house for 60-70k depending on how many you were doing.
Now it’s 160 at least. In just 15 years. While social rents have (rightly) been kept low. The economics have really gotten to a point where a Housing Association has to sell over half the properties they build to make a new development work. 10 years ago it was 20% sold.
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