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THE Ministry of Defence (MoD) should use some of the homes it owns to house veterans struggling with homelessness, the SNP demanded yesterday.
The party argues that the MoD’s disused properties could go to supporting some of the hundreds of former military personnel looking for a home.
Data gathered from a freedom of information request found that the number of empty MoD-owned homes in Scotland has risen by 57 per cent to 1,087 since 2013, from 690.
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON
In part one of a two-part feature, CONOR BOLLINS asks whether we should be concerned about the Prime Minister’s military recruitment plans
