Email your general election candidates: Ask them to prioritise housing

A general election is just around the corner, and it’s your chance to demand change.  Let’s make it crystal clear to all political parties and candidates: ending the housing emergency in Scotland must be their top priority. 

This housing emergency is tearing apart lives and communities across Scotland. Right now, 10,000 children have no place to call home. Half the country is living in an area where local homelessness services are overwhelmed. Private rents are spiralling out of control. This emergency demands immediate, decisive action from every level of government – including Westminster. 

The next UK government have choices to make that will have implications for housing in Scotland for decades to come. 

Email your local candidates today and demand they accept there is a housing emergency in Scotland and commit to doing what they can to end it. It will only take 30 seconds.

• Here’s what we’re demanding from the next UK government:
  • Bring an end to the austerity fuelling the housing emergency by reforming the local housing allowance (LHA) and ensuring it keeps pace with inflation so that it more accurately reflects the real cost of renting, scrap the benefit cap and bedroom tax, and put an end to the two-child limit and so-called ‘rape clause’.
  • Scrap the ‘hostile environment’, provide adequate funding for councils to meet the housing needs of refugees and people seeking asylum, and embed a truly anti-racist approach to migration throughout government – especially in the Home Office.
  • Increase the capital grant available to the Scottish Government and make sure it keeps pace with inflation to help protect housing budgets from further cuts.

   

  Read more about our demands and how you can get involved.