Housing Emergency (Amendment 4)
S6M-14719.4: As an amendment to motion S6M-14719 in the name of Anas Sarwar (Housing Emergency), leave out from "believes" to end and insert "agrees that Scotland is in a housing emergency; notes the Scottish Government&rsquo;s ongoing work with partners, including COSLA and the Housing to 2040 Board, on priorities in tackling the housing emergency; highlights the Scottish Government&rsquo;s commitment to provide &pound;80 million across 2024-25 and 2025-26 to support acquisitions and bring empty social homes back into use, bringing the Affordable Housing Supply Programme investment to almost &pound;600 million this year, and its commitment to &pound;100 million for 2,800 mid-market rent homes; welcomes the investment of &pound;22 million in affordable housing through charitable bonds and the launch of a planning hub to improve capacity and skills; notes the Housing (Scotland) Bill, which includes key measures on preventing homelessness, including action through rent controls, and calls on the UK Government to reverse the 9% capital budget cut, to permanently uprate local housing allowance to the 30th percentile of local rents, and to scrap the so-called bedroom tax in its Autumn Budget."

Original motion(S6M-14719):
That the Parliament believes that the Scottish Government has failed to respond adequately to the housing emergency that the Parliament declared in May 2024.