The severe shortage of social homes across Scotland is once more in the spotlight as Shelter Scotland reveals new analysis showing 
would take more than seven years to clear waiting lists.
Scotland’s leading provider of housing and homelessness advice based its analysis on the most recent waiting list figures of 156,200 and the number of lets at 21,605. Based on that trend it would take 7.2 years to clear the list.
The charity says it may well take much longer than the seven years due to new people joining the list as austerity measures and welfare reforms hit home.
Direct, Graeme Brown, says: “For families to put their lives on hold for up to seven years for a home is unbearable. This analysis shows clearly the desperate situation tens of thousands of people in Scotland have no choice but to endure.”
It is urging people to consider the ‘real bread and butter’ such as the acute shortage of social housing and asks local new local authority councilors to make tackling the housing shortage one of their priorities.
More information: www.shelterscotland.org