SNP-GREEN Scottish government plans to slash housing budgets have been slammed as “the worst possible decision at the worst possible time” by housing and anti-poverty bodies.

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) have joined forces with constructors at Homes for Scotland, the Chartered Institute for Housing and anti-poverty charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to write an open letter to First Minister Humza Yousaf demanding he ditch the eyewatering £196 million cuts.

The letter was published in today’s Daily Record newspaper on the eve of today’s Holyrood vote, which would axe more than a quarter of Scotland’s housing budget.