Housing is at the heart of our everyday lives. It binds our unities, tributes to our wellbeing and affects our jobs ah opportunities. In February 2011, the Scottish Gover published its strategy and a plan for housing in the decade.
The Housing (Scotland) Act, which received Royal Asnt in December 2010, will safeguard social housing for future geions by ref the Right to Buy and improve value for tenants and taxpayers by modernising social housing regulation. As part of this, a Housing Charter will be starting point for asssing a landlord’s performance, and a discussion paper has now been published. The cil Hou Building Fund iivis local authorities to begin building new homes and is the first such tral gover support to cils in a geion.
The Scottish Gover offers help to first-time buyers aer information for buyers and llers through the Home Report. It also helps homeowners at risk of losing their homes through the Home Owners Support Fund.
It is encing a thriving private rent ctor, which provides good quality and well managed aodation, and in which both landlords as uand their rights and responsibilities.
Housing is at the heart of our everyday lives. It binds our unities, tributes to our wellbeing and affects our jobs ah opportunities. In February 2011, the Scottish Gover published its strategy and a plan for housing in the decade.
The Housing (Scotland) Act, which received Royal Asnt in December 2010, will safeguard social housing for future geions by ref the Right to Buy and improve value for tenants and taxpayers by modernising social housing regulation. As part of this, a Housing Charter will be starting point for asssing a landlord’s performance, and a discussion paper has now been published. The cil Hou Building Fund iivis local authorities to begin building new homes and is the first such tral gover support to cils in a geion.
The Scottish Gover offers help to first-time buyers aer information for buyers and llers through the Home Report. It also helps homeowners at risk of losing their homes through the Home Owners Support Fund.
It is encing a thriving private rent ctor, which provides good quality and well managed aodation, and in which both landlords as uand their rights and responsibilities.
It has also developed the National Housing Trust initiative that aims to deliver around 1,000 homes for below private market rates rent across a number of local authority areas.