Transport and environment convener Scott Arthur has branded demand for housing in the south-west of the city ‘absolutely incredible’ after 781 people applied for just one house.<br /><br />The council were inundated with applications after buying nearly two dozen homes lying empty in the Dreghorn estate in a bid to secure more affordable accommodation for the city’s growing homeless population.<br /><br />The first four houses had a total of 2,455 applications between them. But one home saw 781 applications - nearly four times the average number of 200 bids for a social home in Edinburgh.<br /><br />
