HE perennial problem of rents has raised its head again in Glasgow as the result of a comparison of housing statistics published by the Institute of Municipal Treasurers and Accountants. This demonstrates that the rate subsidy to the housing account is larger here than in any other County Borough in Britain, while the Exchequer grant is second only to that for West Ham. . Clearly in this situation, however much the Labour Party has ignored this in the past, there exists a conflict between
House tenants (who represent a third of the City’s householders) and owner-occupiers and tenants of privately - rented accommodation, many of whom are financially no better off than local authority tenants. Glasgow’s Labour-controlled Corporation resolutely refused to make any adjustment in their low rents policy before the election. It is therefore tragic that the policies of Labour in power are. making a mockery of this stand. It is worth pointing out that a halving of current interest rates would effect a