The credit crunch and resulting collapse in consumer confidence, combined with dramatic changes in mortgage availability, have had a devastating impact on the supply of new build homes and the industry which provides them.
With much new development across Scotland remaining on hold, output has collapsed across all tenures and the large-scale loss of skills and capacity that has occurred is having far-reaching and long-term social and economic consequences.
Click here to read details of the action Homes for Scotland is demanding from government at all levels and across all parties.