“are there other publicly owned similar empty properties which could be used to house these desperate people?”
Letters: Housing Refugees
Emma Roddick MSP: Scrap UK Visa Requirements for Ukrainian Refugees
“the flat-footed and over-bureaucratic Home Office response to the refugee crisis has been heartlessly inept.”
Making Your Home Even Draughtier
Islanders may find this hard to take in but building standards applied across the UK would make homes in areas with the highest rates of fuel poverty even draughtier.
“we recognise there is a real need to create affordable, sustainable homes for older people”, Professor Gokay Deveci
“This project would address Orkney’s socio-economic needs and offer a new sustainable housing design based around technology that supports active ageing.”
Share your views on Housing in Orkney
Lack of affordable housing, high costs of renting, high cost of buying, housing lying empty: across the islands Orkney’s housing situation is a major issue.
Funding Boost to Hope CoHousing Project
Hope CoHousing have been awarded over £48,000 by Inspiring Scotland’s Rural Communities Ideas into Action Fund.
Emma Roddick MSP “Housing will continue to be a focus for me in 2022”
“affordability is the big issue that we have to tackle for private tenants”
Housing News: Rising Prices & Empty Homes
In 2020 Orkney had the third highest level of vacant dwellings within Scotland with an estimated 5.6% of the housing stock lying empty.
Are you a tenant? Share your views on a new deal for tenants
“This consultation provides an opportunity to inform and shape the detail behind these important principles, not least to provide a clearer definition of affordability. ” Sally Thomas SFHA
Emma Roddick MSP: Wishing all readers a healthy and safe festive season.
“With the emergence of the new Omicron variant, it’s more important than ever that we pull together to prevent more unnecessary deaths over this festive season. “
