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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.
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON
