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Next four years "make or break" on homelessness |
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Thursday, 24 May 2007 |
The next four years are “make or break” for delivering on Scotland's internationally acclaimed homelessness legislation, according to Shelter Scotland director Archie Stoddart.
Addressing the ‘Housing Scotland: Setting the Agenda 2007-2011’
conference in Edinburgh today, Stoddard said: "The next four years is
make or break time for our internationally acclaimed homelessness
programme to become a reality.
"If we fall short, we do so within the gaze of progressive opinion well
beyond these shores. If we falter we prove correct those cynics who
think that Scotland cannot lead the world in anything that matters. But
most importantly, if we stumble we fail those homeless and badly housed
people who desperately need us to get this right.”
His comments come after figures published this week showed a 10 per
cent rise in the number of people on waiting and transfer lists for
social housing across Scotland from 188,322 in 2005 to 206,538 in 2006.
Stoddard continued: "Without 30,000 homes over the next three years, we
fail everyone in need of a home, including all those who are homeless,
waiting for a house, or who cannot afford to buy their first home. We
will fail Scotland's people."
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