The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations has once again joined forces with Shelter Scotland and the Chartered Institute of Housing Scotland to commission research into housing need across Scotland once the current five-year government housebuilding programme ends in 2021.

The Scottish government launched a programme three years ago to build 50,000 new homes between 2016 and 2021.

And new figures released this week show that in the year to September 2018 18,750 homes were completed, up 4% year-on-year.