An article examined attitudes to home and tenure among the owners of low-cost homes in Scotland.
Source: Kim McKee, 'Challenging the norm? The "ethopolitics" of low-cost homeownership in Scotland', Urban Studies, Volume 48 Number 16
Links: Abstract
Date: 2011-Dec
The Scottish Government published a 10-year housing strategy for older people. It stressed the importance of supporting people to remain at home independently for as long as possible.
Source: Age, Home and Community: A strategy for housing for Scotland?s older people: 2012-2021, Scottish Government
Links: Strategy | Scottish Government press release
Date: 2011-Dec
The findings were published from an evaluation of two pilots in Scotland that used co-production as a method of working with disabled people to ensure that their needs were addressed in local housing strategies
Source: Anna Evans, Mandy Littlewood, David Henderson, and Sandra Grant, Evaluation of Local Housing Strategies Co-Production Pilots with Disabled People, Scottish Government
Date: 2011-Dec
An article examined whether research that used the concept of the social relations of housing provision was implicitly centred on men and neglectful of women, drawing on research into housing provision in rural Scotland.
Source: Madhu Satsangi, 'Feminist epistemologies and the social relations of housing provision', Housing, Theory and Society, Volume 28 Issue 4
Links: Abstract
Date: 2011-Dec
An audit report in Scotland said that public bodies involved in planning had improved joint working. But the time taken by local councils to decide planning applications had not decreased, and there was a widening gap between the costs of processing applications and the income that councils received from fees. More detailed information on performance and costs was needed in order to identify efficiencies.
Source: Modernising the Planning System, Audit Scotland
Links: Report | Audit Scotland press release | RTPI press release | BBC report | Public Finance report
Date: 2011-Sep
A report examined the usefulness of 'reasonable preference' categories in determining the allocation of social housing in Scotland.
Source: Joanne Bretherton and Nicholas Pleace, Reasonable Preference in Scottish Social Housing, Scottish Government
Date: 2011-Jul
The housing watchdog in Scotland examined what homeless people wanted, and what they valued, in services from local authorities.
Source: Priorities of Homeless Service Users, Scottish Housing Regulator
Links: Report | SHR press release
Date: 2011-Jun
A report said that up to 1 in 5 social housing tenants in Scotland would see their incomes fall due to the coalition government's proposals for housing benefit cuts. It identified a range of ways in which the most severe impacts could be mitigated.
Source: Mandy Littlewood, The Impact of Proposed Welfare Reform on HA/Co-op Tenants, Scottish Federation of Housing Associations
Links: Report | SFHA press release | Inside Housing report
Date: 2011-Jun
An article examined the status of design in the private sector house-building industry in Scotland, and the connexions between housing design and wider planning department responsibilities including land-use planning and management. A more 'widely embedded' understanding of the design implications of land-use planning and management decisions was needed in order to optimize conditions for good design.
Source: Harry Smith, Soledad Garcia Ferrari, and Paul Jenkins, 'The role of planning in housing design: design implications of land-use management', Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Volume 29 Number 3
Links: Abstract
Date: 2011-Jun
An article examined a project in Scotland that evaluated the health impacts of new-build social housing.
Source: Marcia Gibson, Hilary Thomson, Ade Kearns, and Mark Petticrew, 'Understanding the psychosocial impacts of housing type: qualitative evidence from a housing and regeneration intervention', Housing Studies, Volume 26 Number 4
Links: Abstract
Date: 2011-May
An article examined an innovative subsidy designed to overcome barriers to housing provision in rural Scotland.
Source: James Morgan and Madhu Satsangi, '"Reaching the parts other grants don't go?" Supporting self-provided housing in Rural Scotland', Housing Studies, Volume 26 Number 4
Links: Abstract
Date: 2011-May
A report highlighted the wider benefits of social rented housing in Scotland for health, education, jobs, and the economy.
Source: Duncan Maclennan and Tony O Sullivan, Raising the Game: The economic case for housing, Chartered Institute of Housing in Scotland
Links: Report | Inside Housing report
Date: 2011-Mar
A report examined the alternative approaches available to finance housing infrastructure investment in Scotland.
Source: Newhaven Research, Paying the Piper: Funding and financing infrastructure issues for housing in Scotland, Chartered Institute of Housing in Scotland
Links: Report
Date: 2011-Mar
A report said that Scottish Government guidance on assessing the housing needs of an area was often vague and ambiguous rather than clear and authoritative.
Source: Newhaven Research, Wagging the Dog: Assessing housing need, Chartered Institute of Housing in Scotland
Links: Report
Date: 2011-Mar
The housing watchdog in Scotland published a report that examined the future role of local surveys in assessing tenants satisfaction with their landlord s services.
Source: Ipsos MORI Scotland, Capturing Better Information on Tenant Satisfaction, Scottish Housing Regulator
Links: Report | SHR press release
Date: 2011-Mar
The Scottish Government published a strategy paper on housing for the period to 2020. Local councils would be given new powers to increase council tax on long-term empty homes, raising funds to build low-cost homes.
Source: Homes Fit for the 21st Century: The Scottish Government's strategy and action plan for housing in the next decade: 2011-2020, Scottish Government
Links: Strategy | Scottish Government press release | SNP press release | BBC report | Inside Housing report
Date: 2011-Feb
A report examined alternative ways to fund new affordable housing in Scotland at a time when public resources for housing were being significantly reduced.
Source: Kenneth Gibb and Chris Leishman, Delivering Affordable Housing in Troubled Times: Scotland national report, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Date: 2011-Feb
A report by a committee of MSPs broadly welcomed the Private Rented Housing (Scotland) Bill (designed to improve standards and promote sustainable growth in the private rented housing sector). But it expressed concern that the Bill would make it difficult to predict the number of homelessness cases, and over whether there would be space in the private and social rented sector to house displaced people.
Source: Stage 1 Report on the Private Rented Housing (Scotland) Bill, 2nd Report 2011, SP Paper 560, Scottish Parliament Local Government and Communities Committee
Links: Report
Date: 2011-Jan