UK General Election 2024: Shelter Scotland's Calls for Urgent Action

Key policy asks for the next UK government ahead of the 2024 General Election. We are calling on candidates from all parties to accept there is a housing emergency in Scotland and commit to doing what they can to help tackle it. We are demanding the next government:

• Bring an end to the austerity fuelling the housing emergency by reforming the local housing allowance (LHA) and ensuring it keeps pace with inflation so that it more accurately reflects the real cost of renting, scrap the benefit cap and bedroom tax, and put an end to the two-child limit and so-called ‘rape clause’.

• Scrap the ‘hostile environment’, provide adequate funding for councils to meet the housing needs of refugees and people seeking asylum, and embed a truly anti-racist approach to migration throughout government – especially in the Home Office.

• Increase the capital grant available to the Scottish Government and make sure it keeps pace with inflation to help protect housing budgets from further cuts.