A report on "Scotland's Older Houses" by a Government committee chaired by Mr. J.B. Cuthingworth, formerly of Glasgow University, declares that - Scotland's housing position’ is worse than the Government has so far. acknow-= ledged. There are 273,000 houses (16% of the total stock) unfit for habitations » At: the present rate of slum clearnace (15,000 p.a.) it will take 18 years to demolish all of these. A further 193,000 (10.7%) have a life expectation of beteeen 15 and 30 years.
The report calls for special subsidies for Glasgow and other areas with particular problems. The report is published by the Stationery Office and costs 10/6d.
from a Glasgow reader