Call for young Scots to have right to live where they grew up
October 11, 2024
Call for young Scots to have right to live where they grew up
by ewenmax
12 comments
Great article, just a couple of errors .
The last social housing built in Achiltibuie was the Island View development built in 1974.
The flat that Emily refers to is the former school house which was converted by Coigach Community Development Company 10 years ago.
According to ScotGov data the average house price in Achiltibuie in 2022 was £237,316.
The location of 10,000 homes in rural Scotland that Scot Gov refer to needs greater consideration.
1,000 homes built across the 100 coastal townships from Applecross up the West coast along the North to Bettyhill. 10 homes in each coastal community would add between 2000-3000 people to our population, save our schools services, create apprenticeships, local employment and reverse our depopulation crisis.
Unfortunately ScotGov have been looking at places like Nairn, Tain, Dornoch, Golspie and the outskirts of Inverness itself and ticking those places as ‘rural’.
This isn’t just about taxing or stopping the sale of 2nd homes, it goes deeper to the point that without substantive action the populations of the North and West Highlands will simply be replaced by affluent retired/semi retired folk and their live in carers and our young will continue to be bred for migration.
Solution for everything – legislate a right. Easier than actually doing something.
You could say this anywhere, it’s not specific to Scotland. For example my wife is from Oxford where house prices are 14 x local wages.
I grew up in Aberdeen and had to.leave because of house prices at “peak oil” when houses were £300k+ yet an admin assistant at an oil company was paid £4k a year.
Supply and demand. It’s always supply and demand. Can’t buck that with some kind of ‘right’.
Yes
Oh a right to housing you say? Does that mean you can just build another house on your property without planning permission? No? Doesn’t seem like much of a right then.
Jobs. Where are the jobs which will keep people in place? Or attract people?
Where are the incentives to attract employers? Which, in turn, will create the jobs?
It’s always about the economy. Get the economic conditions right and housing will follow.
Yeah, the social housing points system really should have where you were raised as a pretty big consideration imo.
It just sounds like an elaborate way to say “we should build more social housing in rural areas”. Sometimes presenting a thing as an individual right just isn’t helpful for what you’re trying to get done.
Hmm I have conflicting views on this.
In principle, I love the idea of a right to live, but let’s make it a very practical priority rather than an abstract bit of word soup. If you went to primary school within 50 miles, and there’s two of you bidding for a home, you get preference over the other. Or maybe if you can meet the minimum asking price then it’s guaranteed yours, or the likes.
In practise, I come from rural Angus and I can tell you the percentage of young people who stayed in their home village is single figures. I know none personally. So I can’t imagine the demand is really that high.
In this article, the woman in question clearly has the ability to live there of she wants,in her parents home or her current rented home. Her demand is not for priority or locality, it’s that properties exist to meet her desires, and where she wants them. Does that meet with the communities desire to expand the settlement? That’s not how the world works, and I can’t imagine it’s healthy to encourage that entitlement mentality with more legislative rights.
Finally, the problem isn’t rural communities not growing and becoming filled with prefab estates, it’s Airbnb. Solve that problem, this goes away. Treat the infection not the symptom.
Even if you could do that, the question is…..is it sustainable, i.e jobs.
If you can live there but no pay your taxes and bills you are hardly going to do it.
Plus the fact many houses could be taken up by people from outside already.
Prepare for 10,000 houses, 9,000 of which will be filled with Somalians
12 comments
Great article, just a couple of errors .
The last social housing built in Achiltibuie was the Island View development built in 1974.
The flat that Emily refers to is the former school house which was converted by Coigach Community Development Company 10 years ago.
According to ScotGov data the average house price in Achiltibuie in 2022 was £237,316.
The location of 10,000 homes in rural Scotland that Scot Gov refer to needs greater consideration.
1,000 homes built across the 100 coastal townships from Applecross up the West coast along the North to Bettyhill. 10 homes in each coastal community would add between 2000-3000 people to our population, save our schools services, create apprenticeships, local employment and reverse our depopulation crisis.
Unfortunately ScotGov have been looking at places like Nairn, Tain, Dornoch, Golspie and the outskirts of Inverness itself and ticking those places as ‘rural’.
This isn’t just about taxing or stopping the sale of 2nd homes, it goes deeper to the point that without substantive action the populations of the North and West Highlands will simply be replaced by affluent retired/semi retired folk and their live in carers and our young will continue to be bred for migration.
Solution for everything – legislate a right. Easier than actually doing something.
You could say this anywhere, it’s not specific to Scotland. For example my wife is from Oxford where house prices are 14 x local wages.
I grew up in Aberdeen and had to.leave because of house prices at “peak oil” when houses were £300k+ yet an admin assistant at an oil company was paid £4k a year.
Supply and demand. It’s always supply and demand. Can’t buck that with some kind of ‘right’.
Yes
Oh a right to housing you say? Does that mean you can just build another house on your property without planning permission? No? Doesn’t seem like much of a right then.
Jobs. Where are the jobs which will keep people in place? Or attract people?
Where are the incentives to attract employers? Which, in turn, will create the jobs?
It’s always about the economy. Get the economic conditions right and housing will follow.
Yeah, the social housing points system really should have where you were raised as a pretty big consideration imo.
It just sounds like an elaborate way to say “we should build more social housing in rural areas”. Sometimes presenting a thing as an individual right just isn’t helpful for what you’re trying to get done.
Hmm I have conflicting views on this.
In principle, I love the idea of a right to live, but let’s make it a very practical priority rather than an abstract bit of word soup. If you went to primary school within 50 miles, and there’s two of you bidding for a home, you get preference over the other. Or maybe if you can meet the minimum asking price then it’s guaranteed yours, or the likes.
In practise, I come from rural Angus and I can tell you the percentage of young people who stayed in their home village is single figures. I know none personally. So I can’t imagine the demand is really that high.
In this article, the woman in question clearly has the ability to live there of she wants,in her parents home or her current rented home. Her demand is not for priority or locality, it’s that properties exist to meet her desires, and where she wants them. Does that meet with the communities desire to expand the settlement? That’s not how the world works, and I can’t imagine it’s healthy to encourage that entitlement mentality with more legislative rights.
Finally, the problem isn’t rural communities not growing and becoming filled with prefab estates, it’s Airbnb. Solve that problem, this goes away. Treat the infection not the symptom.
Even if you could do that, the question is…..is it sustainable, i.e jobs.
If you can live there but no pay your taxes and bills you are hardly going to do it.
Plus the fact many houses could be taken up by people from outside already.
Prepare for 10,000 houses, 9,000 of which will be filled with Somalians