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Social Housing: 100 Years On

Ian Hamilton looks at a century of social housing in Scotland and its impact on people.

The 1919 Housing Act, better known as the Addison Act, gave councils the power and funds to build homes for rent for the first time.
100 years on, more than a million people in Scotland live in what we now call social housing.
In this special report, our reporter Ian Hamilton who was himself brought up in a council house, looks back at a century of social housing and examines its impact on Scotland鈥檚 people.

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