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I read this today about social and mid-rent affordable housing from Wheatley homes at West Craigs. 425 new homes.

https://www.wheatleyhomes-east.com/a...st-development

That must be the way forward, build social housing and negate the need for a massive private rented sector which just feeds the spiral of inflated house prices and gentrification that has gathered such pace in Edinburgh.
The whole project cost 80 million.

For advocates of any further unnecessary tram vanity in the city, think how many homes the council could have build with what they've spent on the extension.
It’s not lack of money that stops govts building houses. Houses literally pay for themselves, hence all the private landlords you mention. It’s politics that stops us building more houses. There is unlimited funds available for a govt who is allowed to borrow to build housing and has the political will to push through planning.
There is no need to stop any other functions of govt.
Otherwise, imagine how many houses we could build if we stopped funding hospitals?


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