>A shortage of social housing (sold off under Right to Buy) and the rising rents of the private sector mean lower income households will either be priced out, or find themselves spending years in temporary accommodation waiting for a housing association home.
We need to build more social housing.
Tbh, I didn’t really know what declaring a housing emergency meant.
I thought of Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy.
The article says
> What does declaring a ‘housing emergency’ actually mean?
> Essentially, they are lobbying for more funding from both the Scottish and UK governments. It’s a similar move being taken by local authorities in England.
If our government doesn’t agree we actually have an emergency, and wouldn’t support a motion to declare one, what is the realistic impact of both our capital city and our largest city both declaring one anyway?
Does the fact GCC is led by the SNP and appears to have gone against the party line mean anything?
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>A shortage of social housing (sold off under Right to Buy) and the rising rents of the private sector mean lower income households will either be priced out, or find themselves spending years in temporary accommodation waiting for a housing association home.
We need to build more social housing.
Tbh, I didn’t really know what declaring a housing emergency meant.
I thought of Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy.
The article says
> What does declaring a ‘housing emergency’ actually mean?
> Essentially, they are lobbying for more funding from both the Scottish and UK governments. It’s a similar move being taken by local authorities in England.
If our government doesn’t agree we actually have an emergency, and wouldn’t support a motion to declare one, what is the realistic impact of both our capital city and our largest city both declaring one anyway?
Does the fact GCC is led by the SNP and appears to have gone against the party line mean anything?