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Members of The Highland Council’s resources committee have welcomed the considerable involvement and work carried out by council staff on issues relating to welfare reform and have agreed to support the potential role of local authorities as financial assessment delivery partners for Scotland’s

A tenant’s sense of ‘wellbeing’ may have a dramatic effect on satisfaction with their landlord, according to John Wickenden, data analysis manager at HouseMark. John was speaking about a new pattern observed between overall ‘Star’ satisfaction and wellbeing questions at HouseMark Scotlandâ

Some of Care and Repair Edinburgh’s key team: (from left to right) – Yvonne Georgeson (Volunteer Officer), Graham Harper (CEO), Andrew Finlayson (Keysafe Fitter) and Louise Love (Head of Operations) Care and Repair Edinburgh assisted over 5,000 older and disabled people to continue to live safel

Blair Melville Scotland needs development to be understood as a net benefit to local communities, says Blair Melville, director at Turley Edinburgh.

People across Argyll and Bute are being invited to have their say on the future of housing in the area via an online survey. Argyll and Bute Council is inviting feedback on the proposed vision, priorities and actions that have been developed for the local housing strategy.

Volunteers join housing officer Audrey Cameron (second from left) with one of the skips at the clean-up Local residents and Fife Housing Group colleagues came together this week to take part in a clean-up of bin stores and communal areas in Lochgelly.

Scott Baxter (left) and Phil Anderson A North East financial services firm is pledging its support to Aberdeen Cyrenians to help fund key projects for those affected by homelessness in the city and surrounding area.

Judy Hamilton Fife Council has unanimously approved its Housing Revenue Account (HRA) budget for 2016/17.

John Swinney Scottish local authorities will receive a total funding package of £10.3 billion in 2016-17 as council tax will be frozen for the ninth consecutive year, deputy first minister John Swinney confirmed yesterday.

North Lanarkshire Council has decided to bring investment in the current housing stock to a quarter of a billion pounds over the next five years and expand its new-build housing programme. Setting its general services and housing budgets for 2016/17 yesterday, the council said more than 26,000 homes

The Scottish Government has announced a new £25 million fund to help bring an estimated 500 new affordable homes specifically to rural areas. The Rural Housing Fund aims to increase the supply of long term affordable housing in rural areas over the next three years, by assisting the building of new

Stirling Council renewed its commitment to building new homes in 2016/17 at its budget meeting last week. The local authority will be investing over £9 million this year, as part of a programme of new house building which began in 2010/11 and will provide 210 new houses in the area.

Alex Neil The Scottish Government is to set out the key principles that will underpin its approach to welfare following the agreement of the fiscal framework.

Kingdom Housing Association Limited is delighted to announce the award of a contract to Automotive Leasing for the contract hire of 12 new vans for use by Kingdom’s Repairs and Maintenance team. The procurement process was supported by The Procurement Partnership Limited and Capita Asset Services

Lawyers representing people with disabilities and adult carers will go to the Supreme Court today for a 3-day hearing to argue that the ‘bedroom tax’ unjustifiably discriminates against disabled people. In two sets of cases travelling through the court system, the High Court accepted that the re