Parliament is failing to recognise landowners' important housing role

Cramb, A.

Parliament is failing to recognise landowners' important housing role - 2003 - Landowning in Scotland (278) December 2003/January 2004,16-17(2) .

Contends that the vital role of landowners in providing affordable housing in rural Scotland has not been recognised or publicly supported. The private sector accounts for 56% of rented stock in communities of 1 000 people or less compared with 12% of all rented housing. Most public housing funding is channelled through Communities Scotland, the government agency, who has directed almost all of the funding to housing associations that only provide 2% of rented rural property. This is at a time when the demand for affordable rural homes is increasing. Proposes that landowners are in the best position to deliver these rented homes


COMMUNITIES SCOTLAND
SCOTLAND
LANDOWNERS
RURAL HOUSING