Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) guidance note MHDGN 2024/01

This guidance note contains revised procedures for preparing a Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) and supersedes MHDGN 2023/02.


Introduction

The Scottish Government wants everyone to have a safe, energy efficient home that is affordable and meets their needs in the place they want to be. Housing to 2040 sets out the Scottish Government’s approach about increasing the supply of homes across all tenures through a range of measures including:

Housing to 2040 sets out the Scottish Government’s ambitions for how it wants the housing and communities of the future to be, with actions on how to achieve that. The strategy shows how integral housing is to the Scottish Government’s objectives of tackling poverty and inequality, and our continuing work to end homelessness, creating and supporting jobs, meeting energy efficiency and decarbonisation aims as well as delivery of fuel poverty and child poverty targets, and creating connected, cohesive communities.

The Scottish Government remains focussed on its target of delivering 110,000 affordable homes by 2032. To support that we have brought forward the review scheduled for 2026-2027 to 2024, which will concentrate on deliverability.

Contact

Email: john.mcrorie@gov.scot

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