February 15th, 2011<\/p>\n
HOUSING CUTS FURY\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Greenock and Inverclyde MSP Duncan McNeil fears the area\u2019s impressive house building and modernisation programme will be jeopardised by swingeing cuts imposed by the Scottish Government.<\/p>\n Mr McNeil joined local housing reps at a rally at the Scottish Parliament to protest at the huge spending reductions in the Housing and Regeneration budget passed this week.<\/p>\n Staff from Clock, Oaktree and Care and Repair Inverclyde came through to Edinburgh to demonstrate about the 19 per cent cut.<\/p>\n The MSP is concerned that cuts to the housing association grants will push up rents and hold up new projects from going ahead.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cHousing yet again is the big loser in the Scottish Government\u2019s budget and this undermines the good work being done in the area by housing associations like Cloch and Oaktree.<\/p>\n \u201cSo they are right to be angry at the Scottish Government\u2019s failure to prioritise housing and I am sure that tenants will share this disappointment.<\/p>\n \u201cI am delighted that Inverclyde Council has been able to protect services like Care and Repair but I fear it will become increasing difficult to sustain the housing standards we aspire to.\u201d<\/p>\n According to the Scottish Draft Budget 2011-12, the Housing and Regeneration Budget will fall from \u00a3488m in 2010-11 to \u00a3393m in 2011-12, a drop of 19.4%.<\/p>\n \n \n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 15th, 2011 HOUSING CUTS FURY\u00a0 Greenock and Inverclyde MSP Duncan McNeil fears the area\u2019s impressive house building and modernisation programme will be jeopardised by swingeing cuts imposed by the Scottish Government. Mr McNeil joined local housing reps at a rally at the Scottish Parliament to protest at the huge spending reductions in the Housing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}