BOOST TO SOCIAL HOUSING

Linda Fabiani MSP has welcomed the announcement that 61 new council houses will be built in East Kilbride.

The houses will be built after the Scottish Government made available funding totalling 26 million pounds to build public sector housing throughout the country. South Lanarkshire will receive over one and half million pounds for the investment in the houses to be built in East Kilbride.

Ms Fabiani commented:

“The building of any new public sector houses in East Kilbride is very welcome and long over due. Everyone knows about the chronic council housing shortage in the town and these new build houses mark the beginning of redressing that problem.

“Throughout the country over 1,300 new council houses will be built this year supporting in the region of 3,000 jobs and will provide people with good quality affordable homes.

“This is the largest council house building programme for 30 years and is in stark contrast to the last Labour/Liberal administration at Holyrood which built the grand total of six houses in its last four years of power!

“This SNP Government is happy to be reversing the decline in our social rented housing sector”.

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