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Paul Sweeney arrives for registration at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh, May 11, 2021
CAMPAIGNERS have taken aim at Scotland’s housing regulator after rejecting a “shabby” merger deal.
Despite having no debt and more than £2 million in reserves, management at Reidvale Housing Association in Glasgow’s East End had backed plans to transfer 900 homes — worth £100m — to UK-wide social landlord Places for People in return for £13m as the only way to secure investment.
Now, fresh from binning the plans at Monday’s meeting, residents have shifted their gaze to the Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR), which they believe was the driving force behind what local Labour MSP Paul Sweeney described as a shabby deal.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
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
The work done by Glasgow’s local campaigners and volunteers is truly inspiring, but it cannot stop at picking up the pieces of an irresponsible government, writes MAYA McGOWAN
As bus builder Alexander Dennis threatens Falkirk closure and Grangemouth faces ruthless shutdown by tax exile Jim Ratcliffe, RICHARD LEONARD MSP warns that global corporations must be resisted by a bold industrial strategy based on public ownership