The single biggest priority for housing in Scotland is increasing the supply of affordable homes. In 2015, Shelter Scotland, SFHA and CIH in Scotland commissioned a landmark report which set out the case for a housing programme of 12,000 affordable homes over 5 years: 60,000 in total. In the run up to the Scottish parliamentary elections in 2016, there was cross-party consensus that a programme of this scale was a priority. The Scottish Government subsequently committed to building 50,000 homes over the lifetime of the current parliament (2016-2021), with at least 35,000 of them to be socially rented. While a little short of the estimated need, this programme is the largest of its kind since the 1970s. In setting such an ambitious target the Scottish Government will have been well aware that delivery is what counts and that delivery depends on dozens of organisations – councils, housing associations and others – pulling in the same direction.