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Many staff at Govan Housing Association have volunteered to work on Christmas day delivering meals to those most in need.

Brendan Hall, who led the crew that won The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race in 2009, has praised Caledonia Housing Association’s commitment to employee wellbeing. Speaking at the association's first virtual event for its employees across Scotland, he said: "Wellbeing in the (remote) workpla

Shawfair LLP director Nick Waugh on the importance of community engagement when building a new town. This year has taught us many things – most of them character-forming as my mother was fond of saying - but one genuinely good thing to have emerged from this pandemic is the curative power

Shetland’s 10-year-old Thomas Leask and Keiko the cat are set to become internet sensations in a new film highlighting why Lerwick’s district heating system means local people can have warmth, fight fuel poverty and save the planet.

A group of people with experience of homelessness are to lead a new walking tour which celebrates the rich history of Glasgow’s Laurieston and Gorbals area. Urban Union, the developer behind Laurieston Living, has partnered with Invisible Cities - a social enterprise that trains people affecte

Donald Trump is facing legal action from his New York apartment tenants who allege that he and his family manipulated the cost of apartment improvements to hike the cost of their rents. The group of tenants from rent-regulated apartments that late family Fred C. Trump once owned are filing a class-a

Perth & Kinross Council has created a new fund to help tackle financial insecurity and support households with essential needs and priority debts over the winter. The Financial Insecurity Fund has been created using the Council's share of £20 million provided by the Scottish Government for

Scotland’s least well-off families have seen a marked increase in their income from three Scottish Government benefits, according to an evaluation published today. The evaluation of the three Best Start Grant payments shows that families on the lowest incomes were able to buy essential items f

Build and sales activity at Springfield Properties rebounded strongly following the resumption of operations, post lockdown, from late June 2020 with the group expecting total revenue for the first half of 2020/21 to be approximately 17% higher than in H1 2019/20. Announcing its trading update for t

CALA Homes (North) has submitted a planning application to Aberdeen City Council for the third phase of the leading homebuilder’s Craibstone Estate development.

Intensive efforts from community-based and other housing associations have resulted in significantly slowing the rise in arrears since COVID hit, a new report from the Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of Housing Associations (GWSF) has found. GWSF said that both councils and housing associations w

The Scottish Housing Regulator has published this year’s Annual Assurance Statements, which it said reflect how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on social landlords’ ability to comply with requirements. The Regulator requires all social landlords to submit a Statement each year to conf

Social landlords should use a human rights approach to improve housing outcomes for women and children experiencing domestic abuse, a new report has recommended.

The Scottish Housing Regulator has written to all local authorities regarding their services to people who are threatened with, or are experiencing homelessness, during the festive and winter period. In the letter, director of regulation Ian Brennan said the COVID-19 monthly data returns h

InverTay Homes has taken the "regrettable decision" to return deposits paid by customers in Dundee after discovering that "significant" additional groundworks would be required to build the homes. Four clients who had reserved plots at the housebuilder's 43-home development at Summerfield Avenue bac