Policy library
In this library you will find our latest policy reports, briefings, consultation responses, evidence for Scottish Parliament committees etc. This policy work underpins all of our advocacy and influencing activity to bring about change.
Progress on homelessness: evidence to Local Government and Communities Committee 11 June 2008
A successor body to the Task Force, the Homelessness Monitoring Group was set up in 2002 and has issued annual reports on the progress being made on homelessness. The Task Force was reconstituted in 2007, following the change in Government and issued its most recent annual report in March 2008. This annual report, along with a report by two local government secondees into the Scottish Government’s Homelessness Team, forms the backdrop to today’s session
Published: 25 June 2008
Housing debate briefing: 1 May 2008
Briefing for Debate on Housing: 1 May 2008 - Shelter welcomes the profile given to housing issues in motion S3M-1812.
Published: 31 May 2008
Housing debate briefing: 8 May 2008
Shelter welcomes the wide-ranging debate on housing issues in motion S3M-1848. The lynchpin of housing policy in Scotland is the drive towards meeting the 2012 target on homelessness. Shelter believes that this target should be at the heart of Scottish Government housing and social justice policy.
Published: 30 May 2008
Committee consideration of draft SPP3: Summary of position on quotas for HMOs
Committee consideration of draft SPP3 – planning for housing - Summary of position on quotas for houses in multiple occupation (HMOs)
Published: 30 April 2008
SPP3 - Planning for Housing
We welcome the opportunity to respond to the consultation on Scottish Planning Policy 3: Planning For Housing (SPP3). This Consultation comes at a time when the Government is considering the direction of its housing policy in light of responses to the discussion document Firm Foundations.
Published: 17 April 2008
Evidence to the Scottish Parliament's Rural Affairs and Environment Committee on rural housing
Consultation Response - Evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Rural Affairs and Environment Committee on rural housing
Published: 15 April 2008
Firm foundations: the future of housing in Scotland
Shelter welcomes the ambition to build more homes, but we believe that the Scottish Government has attached too much importance to increasing overall housing supply alone as a means of tackling access to housing.
Published: 31 January 2008
The case for a Scottish rural housing enablers programme
The case for a Scottish rural housing enablers programme
Published: 30 November 2007
2007 spending review briefing: updated
This briefing updates that produced by Shelter on 23 November as a commentary on the budget as originally published.
Published: 23 November 2007
Halfway to 2012: delivering on Scotland's homelessness commitments
Report - Halfway to 2012? Delivering on Scotland’s homelessness commitments
Published: 31 October 2007