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South Ayrshire is to benefit from Scotland’s largest social modular housing development which will deliver much-needed new affordable housing by Autumn 2022. The £9.8 million project is being delivered by Irvine Housing Association (part of the Riverside Group) and Connect Modular, a div

Every employee of the City of Edinburgh Council will earn at least the Scottish Local Government Living Wage (SLGLW) in their base pay from April 1.

Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) in Scotland are "responding well" to being covered by freedom of information (FOI) laws, according to a new report by the Scottish Information Commissioner. The report, which examines the experience of RSLs over their first year of FOI, found that 97% of organisati

Continuing Scottish Housing News' messages of congratulations for two decades of daily support to Scotland’s social housing sector is Shelter Scotland director Alison Watson.

Highland Council’s housing and property committee has agreed for the projected year-end Housing Revenue Account (HRA) surplus to be added back to the budget for housing repairs and maintenance for financial year 2021/22. Committee members recognised that a reduced level of council house repair

All of Scotland's 32 local authorities have chosen to freeze Council Tax rates at last year's levels following a Scottish Government commitment to compensate those who do so.

Work is set to begin on a new affordable housing development located on the site of the former Lairdsland Primary School in Kirkintilloch.

People who are homeless in England are to be prioritised for the coronavirus vaccine after the UK Government accepted advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). In a letter to secretary of state for health and social care Matt Hancock at the start of the month, the JCVI

Phil O’Brien reflects on the affordability of housing as an ongoing issue in Scotland and how the Scottish Government have recently announced future plans to tackle the issue of affordable housing. The Scottish Government has announced plans to invest £3.4 billion in affordable hous

Clyde Valley Housing Association is to acquire a derelict bingo hall to deliver 23 new social homes in Hamilton. The move was agreed by South Lanarkshire Council’s executive committee after it heard that the poor condition of the building would add £300,000 to the development costs &ndas

A woman who has lived in Cambuslang for 50 years is one of the first residents to move into new council homes in the area. The new development, which has transformed East Whitlawburn, brings 311 new homes to the area as a result of a strategic housing partnership between South Lanarkshire Council, W

Olympian Sir Chris Hoy has teamed with up with Social Bite to launch a £1 million fundraising campaign which aims to replicate the charity's Granton village for homeless people in Glasgow and London. The six-time gold medal cyclist will take part in the Break The Cycle campaign, which is

Bank of Scotland owner Lloyds Banking Group has delivered £9 billion to the UK's social housing sector in three years. Since 2018, the bank has provided £9bn of funding to the UK’s social housing sector, outstripping its original £2.25bn funding commitment by £6.75bn ov

An ambition to achieve ”world leading" levels of digital inclusion is at the heart of plans to equip Scotland for the technological transformation of the post-coronavirus world. The updated Digital Strategy, developed by the Scottish Government and COSLA in consultation with business and the t

A new policy setting out how Aberdeen City Council’s housing service will deal with incidents of domestic abuse was unanimously agreed at a committee meeting yesterday. The policy applies to current and prospective tenants and includes actions to increase awareness and training of council staf