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Glasgow ‘happy to use other councils unspent budgets’ to tackle city’s housing crisis
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STV News
Glasgow would be happy to use other councils’ unspent budgets to address the city’s housing emergency, a senior councillor has said.
He said housing pressures in Glasgow are “undeniably more acute than anywhere else in Scotland” and redirecting funds from other local authorities could help tackle the crisis.
A national housing emergency was declared by the Scottish Government in May 2024.
On Friday, it was reported that the City of Edinburgh Council wasn’t using £14.3m for building new council housing this year, as well as £45m for buying existing housing.
Edinburgh council’s finance convener, Mandy Watt, Labour, said: “Edinburgh’s housing budget is fully committed as part of the plans to address Edinburgh’s housing emergency.