Call For Increase In Rented Homes

A coalition of housing campaigners from across Scotland wants 30,000 new affordable homes to be built for rent.

The combined housing, health and environmental groups are due to take their call to Holyrood.

A total of 24 organisations, led by Shelter Scotland, say decent rented homes are vital in the fight against poverty and ill health.

A Scottish Executive spokesman said a broad range of housing issues was being examined.

In Scotland there are currently 8,000 people in temporary homes while one in six families live in damp properties.

Archie Stoddart, director Shelter Scotland, said the lack of available quality homes for rent was causing a crisis for Scotland's poor.