Scottish Tenants Organisation
Manifesto
- Public investment in good quality publicly owned housing available to all who want it.
- An end to stock transfers of any variety and scale
- Council housing debt write-off
- Direct investment in improving existing council houses
- Mass public housebuilding programmes
- The right for tenants to transfer back to council ownership
- An end to the removal of homes from the public and social sectors through right-to-buy.
- Replacement of schemes that subsidise homeownership (and push up house prices) with investment in the public sector.
- Affordable rents that are calculated so as to leave those on low incomes with enough money to afford a decent quality of life
- Controlled private rents with security of tenure, together with policies that reduce dependence on the private rented sector in favour of council housing.
- An end to demolitions that are not supported by tenants and are not part of a programme to provide better housing for the tenants being displaced.
- Proactive planning policies that ensure that public sector housing is available in good central positions and not driven out to perimeter estates.
- The possibility for tenants who want it - to have genuine involvement in running their homes.
- Recognition of the role of genuinely independent tenant and community organisations
©2007 Scottish Tenants Organisation
