The Executive is providing assistance to workers to gain access to housing through a number of areas, including: ·expansion of the Low Cost Home Ownership programme, operatedby Communities Scotland, which provides funding for developments in disadvantagedcommunities to replace or improve poor quality housing and also in areas where demand exceeds supply or where market prices are beyond the reach of local or average incomes;·development of a range of new flexible grant mechanisms,based on the concept of shared equity, particularly aimed at increasing availability of affordable housing; ·discretion for landlords to offer priority to housingallocation to incoming workers essential to an area, subject to the requirementsin the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001; ·participation in the development of a UK-wide mobilityscheme, based on existing housing mobility schemes, which has the added benefitof offering employment as well as housing opportunities for people who wish to move around the UK, and encouraging local authorities and Registered Social Landlords to develop Common Housing Registers within each local authority area across Scotland.