'Local communities have a growing list of gripes, from the declining state of our parks, streets, potholes, empty shops, ever-increasing parking charges and cuts to vital public services and amenities' | mikedailly ✍️
HOW do we reinvigorate Glasgow? How do we shake things up to get Glasgow back to being a world-class city?task force groups, commissions and a variety of talking shops, all of which has led to a panoply of reports. Many words, not so much action.
Council funding is a problem. The council has seen its income salami sliced year on year by the Scottish Government often with barely a squeak from the ruling administration. We have a crisis-level lack of affordable housing in the city; people are living in unsuitable or temporary homeless accommodation for years on end waiting to find a decent home. Private renting is more expensive than buying a flat, but for people who can’t get a mortgage, sadly there’s no other choice.of the city – how we got here and what has worked well in the past.
There were compelling reasons for depopulating Glasgow in the 1960s and 70s including sanitation and the poor state of housing but in reality, we lost a great deal in that massive social engineering exercise. There were good interventions throughout the 1980s and 90s to try and rejuvenate the city. Glasgow’s Miles Better, the construction of the SEC, the City of Culture and the Commonwealth Games are just a few examples.
More recently, rejuvenation has occurred as a result of the writing off of the council housing debt in 2003 which has enabled rapid investment and growth in our community housing associations.
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