Scottish Plant Owners Association (SPOA) president David Jarvie argues that the Scottish Government can't afford to wait until the establishment of More Homes Scotland (MHS) before taking action to end the national housing emergency. I have reused this headline from the Scottish Government’s c

Crisis Scotland’s senior partnerships and practice officer, James Mullaney, argues that Scotland’s Ask and Act pilots show that preventing homelessness depends on a culture shift across public services, and that December’s funding cliff must become a catalyst for national rollout r

Scottish Housing Summit exhibitor Sanondaf explains why a science-led approach matters in social housing.

In an exclusive for Scottish Housing News, Esther Wilson, director of customer services at Hanover, argues that loneliness among older people should be treated as a health condition rather than a mood, and that the right housing, not the GP surgery or hospital ward, is where it can actually be

SHN's Housing Champions feature returns with Lorna Cameron, chief executive of Horizon Housing, who speaks to Margaret Taylor about the inextricable link between accessible housing and social care. It is almost 35 years since Lorna Cameron started her career at what was Strathclyde Regiona

Jimmy Black relives a few housing decades with Laurie Naumann, a campaigner on single homelessness, and a founder of Kingdom Housing Association. This is a story about Laurie Naumann, who recently retired after 44 years as a board member at Kingdom Housing Association. But it’s also a step bac

Jimmy Black cycled to Stornoway to meet Calum (Barney) MacKay, chair of TPAS Scotland and long-standing tenant activist. Barney is a trade unionist, and that explains a lot. Trades unions teach their active members how to do many useful things, including basic skills, like how to run a meeting or th

Jimmy Black meets the energetic Evie Copland, multi-award-winner and housing evangelist. “The biggest problem is … how do I change the world with this?” Evie Copland is finishing her Master's in Housing Studies, and she has been a distinguished student. In 2021 she won the Malcolm

The latest episode of the Scottish Housing News Podcast lifts the lid on the quietly contentious issue of pets in social housing and the growing movement to make policies more compassionate, consistent and evidence‑based. For many tenants, a dog or cat is a lifeline. For many landlords, they&rsquo

Scottish Housing News has released a new podcast episode exploring how social landlords are preparing for sweeping new statutory duties on damp and mould — and why the sector may already be ahead of the curve. The Investigation and Commencement of Repairs (Scotland) Regulations 2026, inspired

Below is a full transcript of episode 81 of the Scottish Housing News Podcast titled 'How Scotland is gearing up for Awaab's Law with Gregor Morrison and Bob Cairney’. Listen to or watch the episode here.

Scotland’s leading voices on accessible housing have urged the Scottish Government to put inclusive homes at the heart of its agenda ahead of May’s election, warning that the country is “nowhere near prepared” for the scale of demographic change coming.

Jimmy Black hears that English flat owners who don’t maintain their blocks can lose their property without compensation. Should Scottish tenement owners face similar penalties?

It’s Scottish Housing Day; Jimmy Black conjures up soundscapes, and meditates on what makes a good neighbourhood.

Jimmy Black blogs on Riverside Scotland’s Housing First for Families, and Albyn’s Tenancy Sustainment Team.

Jimmy Black says the current funding system for adaptations makes no sense.

For the next edition of Our Housing Heritage, journalist and digital history specialist Chris Holme shares the story of how First World War servicemen came to reside in the rural village of Longniddry. Unlikely as it sounds, the Longniddry Piggery provided Britain’s first purpose-built homes f

In the latest article in the ongoing Our Housing Heritage series, Scottish Housing News discusses the Glasgow Rent Strikes of 1915. In the absence of social housing, families across the UK in 1915 were at the mercy of private landlords who could hike rents and evict tenants at will with little restr

The Springburn office of ng homes is named after Ned Donaldson. But who was Ned Donaldson? Kieran Findlay recalls the contribution of the activist and the post-war battle to stop the privatisation of council housing at Merrylee. It was a cold sleety December day in 1951. Slum landlordism and sublett

Duncan Smith, who works in the social housing sector, has contributed this piece as part of his quest for more information about housing architect George Gibson. Several years ago, just after starting my current job, I undertook some research on the properties we were refurbishing at the time. I fou

Thousands of vulnerable households across England, Scotland and Wales will benefit from trusted local support to help them manage energy costs and stay safe and warm, as energy networks expand a successful community programme.

A digital solution is being sought to help identify social housing tenants most at risk from cold, damp, mould and fuel poverty before problems escalate. Even where properties are of a good standard, vulnerable residents can still face poor health and wellbeing if they cannot afford to heat and vent

Support for households struggling with the cost of heating oil and Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) has been extended into winter. The Scottish Emergency Heating Oil Scheme was introduced on 1 April to help low-income households cover higher heating oil and LPG prices, driven by ongoing instability in the

The Ofgem Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme has launched its second funding round, opening for applications on Monday 21 September.

Projects helping to prevent homelessness across Scotland will continue until the end of this financial year following additional Scottish Government funding of £945,000.

Public services in Scotland need almost £100 million investment over the next two years so that hospitals, the police, prisons, councils, housing associations and Social Security Scotland are ready to proactively prevent homelessness, according to independent research published today. 

Homeless Network Scotland has called on National Records of Scotland (NRS) to think again about a proposal to publish its homeless deaths statistics every two years instead of annually.

Crisis Scotland’s senior partnerships and practice officer, James Mullaney, argues that Scotland’s Ask and Act pilots show that preventing homelessness depends on a culture shift across public services, and that December’s funding cliff must become a catalyst for national rollout r

Arden Property Management has been named Scotland’s top letting agency, taking home Gold at the national ESTAS Awards for Best Letting Agent in Scotland, as voted for by both landlords and tenants, alongside the Best in County title for Edinburgh. As the female-led business celebrates its 20th

Dr Andrew Robert Watson, an independent research associate with the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) and the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC), presents a summary of a published academic article in the International Journal of Housing Policy. Scotland has pursued two very differe

The Upper Tribunal for Scotland has refused a landlord’s appeal against a decision not to grant an eviction order despite rent arrears of £8,554, finding that the First-tier Tribunal was entitled to give greater weight to the likely homelessness of a tenant and her young children. Sherif

The Scottish private rented sector (PRS) continues to retain marked stability with minimal rental price movement across major markets as the deadline for the first market assessments by local authorities starts to come in to view, according to a new report from Citylets.

The UK government has been called on by the Scottish and Welsh governments to scrap welfare policies and proceed with plans to cut energy bills. 

Introducing inflation-linked rent controls in 2027/28 could reduce the cost of relinking Local Housing Allowance (LHA) to local rents in 2030/31 by £1.1 billion, a new report has concluded.

The Scottish Government has called on the UK Government to take "immediate action" to end homelessness, with social justice secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville pressing on the Prime Minister's stated ambition to eradicate the crisis. In a letter addressed to work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden, M

The homelessness charity Crisis has hit out at proposals from Policy Exchange to overhaul England's social housing system, warning that the recommendations amount to "divisive rhetoric" that will worsen the country's housing crisis rather than solve it.