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Scottish council encourages landlordism to tackle housing crisis
OWNERS of Glasgow’s 2,500 vacant homes should sell up or become landlords and the SNP-run city council says it will offer them help to do it.
Amid what it called “unprecedented pressures,” the council declared a housing emergency in 2023, but since then that pressure has only grown alongside rocketing rents.
The council has begun to ramp up use of compulsory purchase orders to bring empty homes back into use in an effort combat the crisis.
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