Affordable Social Housing

I was underwhelmed by David McLetchie's (Tory MSP) criticisms of our housing policy. This from a man who supported council house sales, which is one of the very reasons we have a huge problem in providing both adequate numbers of houses at affordable prices and manage the estates they are in. I do not critisise those who bought their homes in any way. In many cases they were made an offer that they could not refuse. But there were huge consequences of that policy, especially as the cash raised went only to pay off debt and not new homes. I also don’t want to go back to the kind of centralised control of council housing stock that said you can have any colour of front door as long as its black. But thanks to the right to buy, from which there is no going back, we have lost more than half our housing stock and the ability to work with local people to manage the whole area and stock together. I find his conversion to the need for affordable social housing a overwhelmingly shallow experience.