Record Housing Investment to Accelerate Homebuilding

This year, the Scottish Government’s Affordable Housing Supply Programme will invest £925.9 million - an increase of £291 million (45.8%) on last year and the largest ever annual allocation to affordable housing since records began in 1989.

Between 2007-08 and 2024-25, the annual average supply of affordable housing per head of population in Scotland has been 14.4 homes per 10,000 population.

This is 69% higher than Wales (8.6 homes per 10,000 population), 45% higher than England (9.9 homes per 10,000 population) and 16% higher than Northern Ireland (12.4 homes per 10,000 population – average across the years 2010-11 to 2021-22).

Meanwhile, approvals for new affordable homes between July and September 2025 rose 61% compared to the same period the previous year.

In North Ayrshire, the number of affordable council houses between 2025 and 2030 will number at least 1,666.

The attached photograph was taken at St Mary’s Gardens in Largs, a £6.6 million development built by Norh Ayrshire Council with £4 million of support from the SNP Government.