Housing – Page 3 – Policy Scotland

Housing market policies for Canada: Short term measures and system challenges

Canada, David Graham, Housing economics, Housing market, Professor Duncan Maclennan, Shaping FuturesBy admin October 9, 2017

This paper examines recent Canadian policy shifts to cope with, and remove, house price pressures in major metropolitan areas, Vancouver and Toronto.

Expert-led seminar to examine private rented sector

Housing market, Professor Ken Gibb, Seminar, UK Collaborative Centre for Housing EvidenceBy admin April 26, 2017

Expert-led seminar on the private rented sector.

Scotland’s local elections – what to look out for

attainment, Austerity, City economies, Health, Housing, Inequalities, Local government, Professor Ken GibbBy admin March 2, 2017

Professor Kenneth Gibb, Director of Policy Scotland, comments on six key issues voters should be looking out for in the 2017 Scottish local government elections.

Gimme (a ‘standard’) Shelter

Commentary, Housing, Professor Ken GibbBy admin October 20, 2016

Kenn Gibb analyses Shelter’s study describing a model of a living home standard.

Growing public and political interest in urban land reform

Commentary, Dr David Adams, Economy, Housing, land reform, Urban developmentBy admin April 28, 2016

People are beginning to realise that land reform in Scotland may become just as important in urban areas as rural ones, especially in tackling urban vacancy and dereliction

Journalism by hype: the anatomy of a house price crisis story

Commentary, Housing market, Professor Ken GibbBy admin January 20, 2016

Ken Gibb examines a media story on the housing market, to scrutinise the facts of the story and the quality of analyis.

Shaping Futures: Housing Policies for the 21st Century

Housing economics, Michael Lennon, Professor Duncan Maclennan, SeminarBy admin December 18, 2015 1 Comment

The talks from Shaping Futures: Housing Policies for the 21st Century seminar on 8 December 2015 with Duncan MacLennan and Michael Lennon are now available to view online. You can watch the lectures below and download the presentations. Shaping Future Housing Policy: A New Political Economy By Duncan MacLennan, University of Glasgow Download the presentation:…

Council tax reform is long overdue – so how do we do it?

Commentary, Housing, Local government, Professor Ken Gibb, Tax, Urban development, Welfare & social securityBy admin August 13, 2015

By Kenneth Gibb, Policy Scotland, Professor of Housing Economics at University of Glasgow. When the council tax was first introduced in 1993, it was viewed as a politically clever fix after the catastrophe of the poll tax. It combined the palatable parts of a tax on property with personal discounts and limited exemptions for certain…

Urban Land Reform in Scotland

Dr David Adams, Economics, Housing economics, land reform, Policy briefing, Scotland, Urban development, Urban Studies, Glasgow UniversityBy admin August 6, 2015 2 Comments

New Briefing Paper: response to Scottish Government Report to Sounding Board In May 2014, the Land Reform Review Group submitted its final report to the Scottish Government. The First Minister announced in November 2014 that the Government would consequently bring forward a Land Reform Bill, which was published in June 2015 and is currently under…

Housing and Wellbeing – blueprints and more

Commentary, Event report/resources, Governance, Housing, Professor Ken Gibb, Scotland, Urban development, Urban Studies, Glasgow University, WellbeingBy admin June 11, 2015

Official presentation of the Commission on Housing and Wellbeing: A Blueprint for Scotland’s Future.