Tenants get say on £70m budget
The Glasgow Evening Times
Scotland, UK
March 12, 2004
TENANTS will have their say on how Glasgow City Council spends its £70million housing development budget.
Council bosses today unveiled a wide-ranging consultation exercise on the budget, which the authority took over from national housing agency Communities Scotland last year.
The council has a wide remit to spend the cash to help city housing associations to build and improve cheap homes for let and builders put up homes for sale at below market prices.
The budget comes with the council's new strategic role in housing development, which it took on last year after it handed over its 82,000 council homes to a not-for-profit landlord, Glasgow Housing Association.
Eamon Fitzgerald, convener of the housing development committee, said: "The council made promises to tenants that if it was given responsibility for this funding, it would have as wide a consultation as possible.
"For the first time ever, local tenants are being given the chance to shape the future of their communities and neighbourhoods in terms of housing.
"There can be no question of the council going it alone with this vital and important £70million budget."