Edinburgh council has launched a housing strategy which includes plans for an extra 9,000 affordable homes.
Its key aims include helping to meet demand for 75,200 new homes in Lothian by 2015, of which 33,700 will be built in Edinburgh.

The targets for new affordable homes are 5,000 by 2007 and 9,000 by 2010.

The city has a shortage of sub-market rented accommodation due to the buoyant property market and the loss of council housing through right-to-buy.

Housing leader Sheila Gilmore said: "The city housing strategy is a challenge to our partners, both in housing associations and the private sector, to be imaginative and to develop ingenious solutions to the housing problems facing our city."

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Housing Today