Search: State must lead on major affordable housing development, argues new paper

CALA Homes (West) is urging local charities, community groups and organisations to apply for their share of its £15,000 community bursary as the deadline date for applications approaches. The bursary programme which is running across Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire and Lanarkshire is drawing to an end

(from left) Louise Dunn, marketing manager, CALA Homes (West); Andrew Duncan, senior land manager, CALA Homes (West); Gordon Craig, finance director, CALA Homes (West) and Liana Canavan, sales & marketing director, CALA Homes (West). Picture credit Martin Shields CALA Homes (West) has launched a

Lynn Richmond The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on 25th May 2018 and will change the way organisations within the EU process personal data. The GDPR will be supplemented by a new UK Data Protection Act and will increase the obligations on all organisations using or proce

Alex Neil Around 120,000 children will be cast adrift if the UK government changes its definition of child poverty, social justice secretary Alex Neil has claimed.

The Salvation Army has urged all political parties in Scotland to make preventing and ending homelessness a central pledge in their manifestos for next year’s election campaigns after new figures painted a mixed picture of progress and growing pressures on housing and support services. The lat

Bob McIntosh, the tenant farming commissioner, explores upcoming changes to the standards for agricultural housing. Scottish Ministers have clearly signalled that they would like a whole-sector approach to standards for rented housing – aligning not only the private and social rented sectors b

More elderly and disabled people will be helped to install fire alarms that save lives and meet new building standards rules thanks to an additional £500,000 in funding.

This World Homeless Day, Shelter Scotland has urged First Minister John Swinney to show Scotland’s 10,110 homeless children the money when it comes to prevention. The charity said that the new prevention duties set out in the housing bill currently before the Scottish Parliament would leave co

Kelly Henderson, domestic violence business manager at Gentoo, has launched a new research project to inform and encourage the housing sector to embrace its role in tackling domestic abuse. It is now 20 years since I entered the housing world and the sense of social purpose we have as a sector still

The upcoming Budget is a chance for the new UK Government to show it’s serious about tackling the housing emergency, Shelter Scotland has claimed.  The housing and homelessness charity said every level of government has a duty to respond to Scotland’s housing emergency and urged Cha

The latest action by Michael Gove to attempt to "drive up standards" in England's social housing sector will see professional qualifications made mandatory for social housing managers. Around 25,000 managers across the sector will now be required to have an appropriate level housing management quali

The Scottish Government’s ‘A New Deal for Tenants’ consultation paper must represent equally the views of landlords and tenants, according to property firm DJ Alexander. The firm said that landlords and property investors are increasingly concerned that the current consultation is

Fiona King Great leaps forward in housing policy since devolution, but huge challenges remain

Professor David Adams By Professor David Adams at the University of Glasgow

The energy sector must take “urgent action” to better identify customers in vulnerable circumstances and improve the help and support given to them, according to a new report.