A collaborative commitment to increase housing supply and targeted action to tackle P站色情片 and Bute鈥檚 housing emergency, are just some of the key summary points from a Housing Summit held this week.
P站色情片 welcomed over ninety partners and stakeholders to a Housing Emergency Summit in Oban. Partners from a wide range of agencies including housing associations, public sector bodies, the house building industry, funders, the voluntary sector and a wide range of community and interest groups attended the Summit, responding to a 鈥榗all to action鈥 to tackle P站色情片 and Bute鈥檚 housing crisis.
In June, P站色情片 and Bute was the first Scottish local authority to declare a housing emergency in response to mounting pressures in the local housing system. Declaring a housing emergency was intended as the catalyst to bring partners, stakeholders, investors and communities together to prioritise and commit to the action needed to tackle housing shortage.
The purpose of the Housing Emergency Summit was to enable partners together to pledge commitments aimed at increasing housing supply. Partners were challenged to think 鈥榦ut of the box鈥 and to pursue brave and bold ideas which respond to the scale of the housing emergency, as quickly as possible.
The outcome of the Housing Summit will be a Housing Emergency Action Plan jointly produced with partner agencies across P站色情片 and Bute. The plan will target action where it is needed most and will have the greatest impact in:
- Enabling the delivery of more market homes in P站色情片 and Bute
- Enabling the delivery of more affordable homes in P站色情片 and Bute
- Enabling the delivery of homes for P站色情片 and Bute's workforce
- Making the best use of existing homes in P站色情片 and Bute
Councillor Robin Currie, Leader of P站色情片, welcomed delegates to the Emerging Housing Summit. He said: 鈥淗ere in P站色情片 and Bute we have a really strong track record in partnership working. The housing Summit is evidence of that with a real commitment from everyone attending to input into the issues we have prioritised.
We all know there is no single answer to resolving the housing emergency, nor can any one agency do it alone. It is imperative to bring all the threads together, all partners together, to focus as a collective on the challenges and the opportunities.
鈥淎n emergency situation requires extraordinary and creative thinking, and we need to come together to achieve this. The actions we prioritise are not for others to take, they are for us as partners to take and that is why the partnership pledges made at the Summit are so incredibly vital. This commitment will help inform an action plan to deal with our housing emergency in the short, medium and longer terms.
鈥淲e have been overwhelmed by the interest and response to the Housing Emergency Summit and I鈥檓 very grateful to all partners for attending.鈥
Summit partners will launch the Housing Emergency Action Plan in early 2024.