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Delivering An End to Scotland's Housing Emergency

By: Shelter Scotland
Published: October 2025

Delivering An End to Scotland's Housing Emergency

Scotland is in the grip of a housing emergency that is damaging lives, undermining communities, and weakening economic growth. We know our housing system is broken and biased, with marginalised groups more likely to experience harm, and councils routinely breaking the law. We know that homelessness is becoming normalised and is the inevitable result of a failure to build social homes at scale and defend the
hard-fought-for rights we have.

Shelter Scotland has worked with people with personal experience of our housing emergency to develop this delivery plan to end the housing emergency.

We believe that this plan provides a blueprint to deliver. Now it is over to our politicians to get on and do it.