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Recognising Dundee's Housing Emergency

  • Submitted by: Maggie Chapman, North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party.
  • Date lodged: Friday, 30 January 2026
  • Motion type: Standard Motion
  • Motion reference: S6M-20634

That the Parliament notes the publication of Dundee’s Housing Emergency Action Plan, a community-led document developed with input from over 30 organisations across Dundee, and people with lived experience of the emergency; understands that, in 2024-25, Dundee recorded 1,377 homelessness or threatened homelessness applications, a 24% increase on the previous year, and that, as of 31 March 2025, 431 households, including 225 children, were living in temporary accommodation; further understands that Dundee City Council recorded 270 breaches of the Unsuitable Accommodation Order in the year to March 2025; notes with concern reports that there were zero starts of new social sector homes in Dundee in the year to September 2025, and that, since 2023, only 50 properties have been acquired through open-market purchase; understands that private rents for an average three-bedroom property in Dundee and Angus have risen by 64.3% since 2010, while Local Housing Allowance stands at £810 per month, leaving families facing a shortfall of around £230 per month; notes that Dundee is the only one of Scotland’s four largest cities not to have declared a housing emergency, despite the Scottish Housing Regulator identifying the authority as being at heightened risk of systemic failure; recognises what it sees as the disproportionate impact of the housing emergency on disabled people, families with children, care leavers, students, and Black people and other people of colour; welcomes the action plan’s call for a coordinated emergency response to accelerate social housing delivery, strengthen housing rights and improve access to support services in the city; agrees that lived experience must be central to housing policy and scrutiny, and calls on the Scottish and UK governments to work with Dundee City Council and local partners to provide the resources, powers and flexibility required to respond to Dundee’s reported housing emergency with the urgency and scale that the situation demands.