HOUSING charity Shelter Scotland is calling on Ministers to make the upcoming budget a 'Budget for Homes' by investing an extra £200million a year in new affordable properties to rent.
The charity is calling on Finance Secretary John Swinney to make homelessness and bad housing his top priority and have calculated that an extra £200m a year - or 0.6% of the Scottish budget - would help build 10,000 affordable homes to rent each year for the next three years.
The call is contained in the charity's new report, Building Solutions, which is being submitted to the Finance Secretary as he prepares for the Scottish budget next month. It follows a recent Shelter report which revealed that the number of social homes in Scotland is at a 50-year low.
Charity director Graeme Brown said: "The Scottish Government has the chance to build a legacy of homes for the people of Scotland, build our way out of a recession.
"Despite recent government announcements about record numbers of homes, with thousands still lost to right to buy and the numbers in need of a home still growing, we are just treading water. We must build more houses."
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