{"id":4801,"date":"2025-10-13T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=4801"},"modified":"2025-10-09T15:16:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:16:34","slug":"garages-offer-new-housing-option-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/garages-offer-new-housing-option-in-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Garages Offer New Housing Option in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland is experiencing a housing crisis, so garages\u00a0that were built years ago\u00a0and\u00a0are\u00a0no longer in use\u00a0are being converted\u00a0into homes.\u00a0\u00a0The housing association\u00a0responsible for the program\u00a0reports that around 6,500 people\u00a0are\u00a0on\u00a0its\u00a0waiting lists, and it\u00a0receives about\u00a050 bids for every home that becomes available.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Garages turned into homes to help ease housing crisis<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cn92pl1yry7o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cn92pl1yry7o<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780520383784\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotland is experiencing a housing crisis, so garages\u00a0that were built years ago\u00a0and\u00a0are\u00a0no longer in use\u00a0are being converted\u00a0into homes.\u00a0\u00a0The housing association\u00a0responsible for the program\u00a0reports that around 6,500 people\u00a0are\u00a0on\u00a0its\u00a0waiting lists, and it\u00a0receives about\u00a050 bids for every home that becomes available. Garages turned into homes to help ease housing crisis https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cn92pl1yry7o Related Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global","category-housing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4803,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions\/4803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}