The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has delivered a stark verdict: Scotland is set to miss its legally-binding child poverty targets "by a wide margin", and the charity is calling for radical policy change to reverse the trend. While framed as a social policy failure, this finding carries direct and significant implications for anyone with capital deployed in Scottish housing — from buy-to-let landlords in Glasgow and Edinburgh to housing associations, build-to-rent developers and the Scottish Government itself, which will now face intensified pressure to intervene in a housing market already shaped by rent controls and tenant protections unique within the UK.