In this blog, Rural Housing Scotland CEO, Derek Logie, reflects on the need to develop new approaches to solve the long-standing housing issues that are driving a youth exodus from our rural areas. Last month, I was asked to make a presentation on rural homelessness to a conference taking place in Canada. I was stuckcontinue reading
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Fragile areas need Big Government | Alasdair Stephen
Derek Logie’s recent blog – Post COVID rural Scotland needs a post war style ‘blood transfusion’ – picked up on points made by architect Alasdair Stephen in a piece in the West Highland Free Press in 2016 and speech Alasdair made to the Rural Housing Scotland conference in 2017. With Alasdair’s permission the WHFP piececontinue reading
Post-COVID rural Scotland needs a post-war style ‘blood transfusion’
“The Highlands have been subject to steady de-population for the last half-century and have been treated like a dying patient to whom people have been handing out hot gruel, etc., with the patient merely grumbling and growling as it went into a decline… The one urgent thing is to stop any further migration. In additioncontinue reading