The Housing Crunch : Solving Scotland’s Housing Crisis – with Dr Craig Dalzell, of CommonWeal.
In this episode, we speak to Craig Dalzell, Head of Policy at the Scottish thinktank Common Weal, about urgent, practical solutions to Scotland’s housing crisis. The discussion is based on his recent article in The National,. It’s addressed directly to Màiri McAllan, the newly appointed Housing Minister in the Scottish Parliament.
Craig outlines bold proposals to tackle the crisis — including filling Scotland’s 100,000+ empty homes, delivering real land reform, raising building standards, and committing to a major expansion of social housing.
If you’re interested in how policy can shape a fairer, more functional housing system in Scotland, make sure you tune in.
Key topics
- 02:14 How come we have a housing crisis?
- 10:02 Filling vacant housing
- 16:07 Actual land reform
- 20:35 Building enough social housing
- 31:17 Increasing the standard of building
- Watch the video of this podcast on our YouTube channel
- Read Craig’s article in the National Newspaper : Four Ways Mairi McAllan can fix Scotlands Housing Crisis
- Find out more about Commonweal
- Browse Commonweal’s Policy Library. Their policy papers are all downloadable and they’re free.
- This is the link to the paper mentioned by Craig in the podcast: Good Houses For All
- Find out about Social Bite villages
- Want to find other podcasts with Craig? Here the playlist.
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