Scotland’s for Council Housing
The Scottish Tenants Organisation jointly with the Scottish Trade Union Congress call for a return to council house building through a mix of direct investment and housing debt write off.
The Scotland’s for Council Housing Campaign calls for:-
- an end to housing stock transfers
- an end to unnecessary demolitions
- an end to the right to buy
- an end to the give-away of land to the private sector.
Tenants say that it is time for a change of direction in housing policies in order to meet the housing crisis in Scotland where 40.000 people are registered as homeless and over 190.000 people are on landlords’ waiting lists.
The STO say that as a country we have failed to meet housing needs and that market solutions are clearly not the answer. The present concerns with the housing market crisis overshadow the existing crisis in housing which has affected people for decades and which will continue unless both the UK and Scottish governments stop their privatisation agendas and address real need.
SCOTLAND’S FOR COUNCIL HOUSING
John Carracher, STO convener:
”We have joined forces with the STUC to campaign for a return to decent affordable council housing. Housing has been in crisis in this country for a long time as successive governments have been too busy pushing the needs of speculators and developers rather than the needs of the communities they represent”.
”Now that economic bubbles are bursting all over the place it is time for a change, away from policies which see people’s homes primarily as ideal investment opportunities, to a return to affordable council housing. If billions can be found to bail out the spivs and speculators then surely homes can be found for the homeless”.
It’s time for change. It’s time for investment in public housing.
October 8, 2009 at 6:00 pm |
Where is the scotland’s For Council Housing Petition?