Scotland’s politicians are ignoring the nation’s housing crisis despite the issue being that raised most often by their constituents, says the director Shelter Scotland.

Archie Stoddart will today say at Holyrood’s third annual Housing Conference in Glasgow that despite hundreds of thousands of Scots being unable to get a mortgage, or languishing on waiting lists, politicians do not put affordable housing at the top of their priorities when funding decisions are being made.

Shelter Scotland - along with other housing organisations - are calling for funding for 30,000 affordable rented homes over the next three years through this year's comprehensive spending review.

“Politicians tell me that housing is the single biggest issue they face at a constituency level. Yet when we reach the higher stratosphere of politics where does it rank? Not nearly high enough. There's a disconnection somewhere between housing as a bread and butter issue and the political priorities that this country sets,” says Stoddart.

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