An aerial view of terraced housing
SCOTLAND’S First Minister must face Parliament over an SNP-Green government “in denial” on the nation’s housing emergency, Scottish Labour have said.
Despite councils such as Edinburgh and Glasgow taking the unprecedented step of declaring a housing emergency, the SNP-Green Scottish government have so far resisted calls from homelessness charity Shelter and opposition politicians to make a similar national declaration.
Criticism intensified when the Scottish government’s recent budget slashed spending on housing by a staggering £205 million — from £738m to £533m — for the coming year, prompting Labour housing spokesman Mark Griffin to join Shelter’s calls for Humza Yousaf to face Parliament on the issue.
It’s hard to understand how minor divisions can come to dominate the process of building a challenge to the rule of the rich when the desperate need for a vehicle to fight poverty and despair is so abundantly clear, writes MATT KERR
