Glasgow Housing Issues

• Cramped and overcrowded conditions in the tenements
• High density of buildings and lack of good quality open space e.g. parks
• more than 50% of households had no fixed baths and hot water, many shared an outside toilet
• Old declining industry causes high unemployment (closing of shipyards)
• limited convenience shopping facilities
• high levels of air pollution from traffic, and visual pollution in the form of vandalism and graffiti.
• urban decay, buildings are run down and in poor condition