Scotland declared a housing emergency - but why is shortage getting worse?

It is three years since Scotland's largest cities declared "housing emergencies", followed months later by the nation as a whole . But delivering this is more complicated, with responsibility falling to central and local government as well as to private housebuilders.

Scottish ministers claim the country boasts the UK's highest rate of housebuilding , external but the pace is falling, and there are questions about whether the right homes are being built in the right places. They include rising pressure on homelessness services, high levels of people in temporary accommodation and a lack of affordable homes compared to lengthy waiting lists.

Homelessness has increased to a record level , with Scottish government data showing , external more than 19,000 households in temporary accommodation paid for by councils - a 10% rise on the previous year. This figure does not include some large authorities like Glasgow which runs its social housing through housing associations, and has more than 6,000 live applications waiting.