Project launch: Transforming the Housing System in Scotland

The David Hume Institute launched new programme of work on Thursday 19th September with Professor Duncan Maclennan to look at the actions needed to transform the housing system in Scotland.

The work will look at the actions needed in the whole system from homelessness, unaffordable rents and planning, to skills shortages and supply-chain issues.

Duncan has had a long and internationally distinguished career as an applied economist specialising in housing, neighbourhoods and cities.

His professional roles have spanned senior positions in both academic and government settings, in the UK, Canada and Australia. At the University of Glasgow in the 1980s he established and led the Centre for Housing and Urban Research, and in the 1990s directed the ESRC Cities and Competitiveness Program and Joseph Rowntree Foundation programs on Housing Finance, Housing and the Macro-Economy and Housing and Area Regeneration.