Summary
IN the period following the First World War this country saw an unprecedented number of houses being built. One of the slogans the government of the day used was "Homes fit for heroes". In my area today finding a home is becoming very difficult for all except the relatively well-off. Young people, the elderly, the low-paid - of whom there are many in Perthshire - are struggling to find somewhere to live. On a number of occasions I have tried to find accommodation for single young people and failed. That is one reason why we have a falling population.
The solution lies in finding the investment required to house our people and up to now governments have done a lousy job of that. So, when I read (April 7) that the National Lottery intends to spend (pounds) 7.3m on various projects the purpose of which is to remember the Second World War, I could hardly believe it. We have failed, utterly, to solve the problem of giving our own people decent living conditions for a century or more and now money is going to be thrown away on this. It is absurd.See the full content of this document
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Lottery Money Wasted Amid a Continuing Housing Crisis
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