Responding to the Scottish Government’s announcement of a new national housing agency to enable and facilitate the accelerated delivery of homes of all tenures, Jane Wood, Chief Executive of sector representative body Homes for Scotland, said:
“With it now approaching two years since a national housing emergency was declared, this is an important and much-needed intervention from the Scottish Government which we have long called for. We applaud the First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Housing on this bold move which seeks to introduce simplicity, scale and speed.
“There is clearly much detail to be worked through but the impact of this announcement and the Scottish Government’s restated commitment to an all-tenure approach should not be underestimated in terms of its potential to stimulate both private sector confidence and investment. In order to make sure that the ambitions of the Scottish Government are achieved, it is now essential that commercial insight and all-tenure expertise feed directly into the design phase. Homes for Scotland is ready to play its full role in this on behalf of members who together deliver the vast majority of all new homes built in Scotland.”
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