Social Sciences Hub
Date: Wednesday 10 December 2025
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Venue: Online
Category: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events
Speaker: Prof Kenneth Gibb, Dr Gareth James

In this online session, Professor Kenneth Gibb and Dr Gareth James (University of Glasgow) from the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) launch their new report - The 2026 Scottish Election: Housing Evidence Priorities for a New Government.

Building on CaCHE's influential 2021 Evidence Manifesto for housing, this new publication revisits Scotland's housing landscape five years on - tracking what has changed, what has stalled, and what still needs to be done. As the 2026 Scottish election approaches, the report sets out a small number of cross-cutting priorities for a new government, grounded in fresh evidence and informed by interviews with housing sector leaders and policymakers. 

What to expect

The launch will introduce the key findings from the report and invite discussion on how the next Scottish Government might take forward evidence-led housing reform.

The report is framed around four critical themes that cut across the housing system:

  • Resetting affordable and social supply – sustaining delivery in a constrained fiscal context
  • Governance and structural reform – rethinking strategy, institutions and accountability
  • Planning, land and infrastructure – enabling development through coherent system design
  • Prevention, homelessness and housing support – shifting towards a preventative housing policy model

These themes are underpinned by reflections on Scotland’s housing journey since 2021, including the Housing to 2040 strategy, rent control legislation, the “housing emergency,” and the evolving debate on affordability, taxation, and public investment.

Why attend

This event will be of interest to:

  • Policy officials and advisors working in housing, planning, and social policy
  • Housing association and local authority leaders
  • Researchers, campaigners, and practitioners seeking to influence post-election housing priorities
  • Anyone interested in how evidence can shape the next phase of Scotland’s housing story

Speakers

  • Professor Kenneth Gibb, Director, CaCHE, University of Glasgow
  • Dr Gareth James, Research Fellow, CaCHE, University of Glasgow
  • Callum Chomczuk, National Director (Scotland), Chartered Institute of Housing
  • Andrea Finkel-Gates, Chief Executive Officer, Scotland's Housing Network

Further speakers to be announced

Register

To attend this event, please register via Eventbrite.

About CaCHE

The UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) is a consortium of academic and policy partners dedicated to producing and mobilising high-quality research to improve housing policy and practice across the UK.

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