The Housing Crunch - some Solutions

2025-08-29

🎙 Solving Scotland’s Housing Crisis – with Dr Craig Dalzell of Common Weal 🏘 In this episode, we speak with Craig Dalzell, Head of Policy at the Scottish think tank Common Weal, about urgent, practical solutions to Scotland’s housing crisis. The discussion is based on his recent article in The National, which is addressed directly to Màiri McAllan, the newly appointed Housing Minister in the Scottish Parliament. Craig outlines bold proposals to tackle the crisis — including filling Scotland’s 100,000+ empty homes, del...

🎙 Solving Scotland’s Housing Crisis – with Dr Craig Dalzell of Common Weal 🏘

In this episode, we speak with Craig Dalzell, Head of Policy at the Scottish think tank Common Weal, about urgent, practical solutions to Scotland’s housing crisis. The discussion is based on his recent article in The National, which is addressed directly to Màiri McAllan, the newly appointed Housing Minister in the Scottish Parliament.

Craig outlines bold proposals to tackle the crisis — including filling Scotland’s 100,000+ empty homes, delivering real land reform, raising building standards, and committing to a major expansion of social housing.

If you're interested in how policy can shape a fairer, more functional housing system in Scotland, this is essential listening.

Key topics

00:02:14 What is the Housing Crisis?
00:10:02 Filling vacant housing
00:16:07 Actual land reform
00:20:35 Building enough social housing
00:31:17 Increasing the standard of building

Read Craig's article in the National Newspaper here https://www.thenational.scot/news/25304485.four-ways-mairi-mcallan-can-fix-scotlands-housing-crisis/

Find out more about Commonweal at https://commonweal.scot
Browse Commonweal's policy library at https://www.commonweal.scot/policies
Good Houses For All paper https://www.commonweal.scot/policies/good-houses-for-all

Find out about Social Bite villages here https://www.social-bite.co.uk/what-we-do/the-social-bite-village-model/

#housingcrisis #commonweal #scottishpolitics

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