Today, we read on the BBC website:  ‘Scots ‘more optimistic about future’, according to BBC survey’
https://thoughtcontrolscotland.com/2018/06/06/is-avoiding-bbc-scotland-news-making-scots-more-optimistic-about-the-future/

Could Scotland end homelessness?
https://thoughtcontrolscotland.com/2018/05/21/as-scotland-fights-to-eliminate-homelessness-in-england-it-soars-hundreds-are-fined-and-imprisoned-and-others-are-cleansed-from-the-streets-of-windsors-royal-wedding-streets/

‘Thousands of parents will no longer have to pay expensive upfront childcare deposits under a pilot scheme. Families who use either a childminder or nursery before their children become eligible for publicly-funded childcare, usually at age three, can be asked to pay a deposit of as much as £900. In Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dumfries and Galloway, the Scottish Government will cover that cost for eligible families until December 2019 through a deposit guarantee. Almost half (44%) of parents in the pilot areas with a child under two who are taking up childcare for the first time can benefit from the scheme.’
https://thoughtcontrolscotland.com/2018/05/16/even-more-evidence-of-becoming-a-better-nation-as-scottish-government-moves-to-end-upfront-childcare-deposits/

I know that much still needs to be done to eradicate homelessness in Scotland but from Scottish Housing News today:  ‘New government statistics reveal there were 11,677 affordable homes approved in 2017/18, 14% more than the previous year and the third consecutive annual increase since 2014/15. This includes increases in affordable rent approvals (which have more than doubled, up by 1,433 homes), and affordable hom ownership approvals (up by 5% or 92 homes), with a decrease in social rent approvals (down by 2% or 124 homes).’
https://thoughtcontrolscotland.com/2018/06/13/scotland-increasingly-streets-ahead-of-england-on-affordable-housing-delivery/