LACK OF ACCOMMODATION 'CRITICAL': We need 125,000 new homes now

Report warns of housing emergency

- REBECCA MCCURDY 

SCOTLAND faces an amid a lack of "emergency" "critical capacity" of social housing, a report has warned.

The Solace study, by council chiefs and senior managers, estimates at least 125,000 homes are needed to meet current demand.

It revealed that 243,603 people are on the waiting list for social housing.

However, only 26,102 allocations were made across the entire country.

Cleland Sneddon, chair of Solace Scotland, said local authority housing faces "unsustainable pressure" amid the lack of new homes after analysis revealed just 18,583 affordable homes have been delivered since 2022, with the supply falling 20 per cent in three years.