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

Norman Macleod Hebridean Housing Partnership (HHP) has appointed a new chair for the organisation following its AGM last week.

Work is set to get underway on the next phase of regeneration at the award-winning Laurieston Living development in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. Laurieston is one of eight Transformational Regeneration Areas (TRA) in the city earmarked for regeneration as part of the Transforming Communities: Glasgo

Aberdeenshire Council has given the green light to plans for 150 homes on the outskirts of Cruden Bay. Councillors on the Buchan Area Committee agreed with the recommendations of council planners this week by approving the plans with provision being made for affordable housing at the site just west

Ashley Campbell First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has set out the Programme for Government for 2017/18. A wide ranging set of 16 Bills covering everything from education to the economy and the environment. There were also some promising statements on housing, homelessness and fuel poverty – but are t

Angus Council has announced plans to cut its workforce by up to 800 staff over the next three years. The local authority, which currently employs 5,042 people, equating to 4113 full-time equivalent (FTE) posts, had already reduced the number of FTE posts by more than 500 in the last six years.

Josh Littlejohn MBE launches Sleep in the Park Thousands of participants have been invited to the world’s largest ever sleep-out event in Edinburgh city centre with the aim of raising £4 million and catalyse a movement to eradicate homelessness in Scotland within five years.

Lorain celebrates her success Maryhill Housing vice chair Lorain Mackinnon has been honoured in this year’s Mary Barbour Award event.

Scotland's Homeless World Cup players Steven Kelly and Colleen McCudden from Glasgow with Sir Alex Ferguson Scotland’s men’s and women’s squads have received words of encouragement from the most successful Scottish football manager in history ahead of the Homeless World Cup in Oslo.

Artist's impression of how the development will look from Main Road A prominent gap site on the outskirts of Ayr is to be transformed with a new development of affordable homes.

(from left) Daniel Lowe, executive director of housing; Councillor Josh Wilson, chair of housing and technical resources committee; Annette Finnan, head of housing services and Bruce Lindsay, development manager at CCG Construction is now underway at the latest phase of South Lanarkshire Council’s

Dundee City Council is inviting interested parties to submit their views over the city's future Local Development Plan (LDP). Developers, land owners agents and other organisations are being asked to submit representations to help form the final document.

Ashley Campbell CIH Scotland has welcomed the Scottish Government’s focus on creating a new social security system based on human rights, dignity and respect but has raised concerns about how the principles will be applied and measured.

Helen Moore Following Harry Woodward’s blog on Tuesday, Helen Moore offers her reflections on Paul Sng’s documentary Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle.

(from left) John Haliburton, Morgan Low, Max Fichera, Barry Johnston, Alan Brown and Carol Sweeney Pink wigs, leather jackets and a liberal application of hair gel was the dress code in Dundee on Saturday when a group of talented performers with various disabilities dazzled in a Grease-themed musica

(from left) Councillors John Rebbeck and Dave Doogan, Springfield chairman Sandy Adam, leader of Perth and Kinross Council Ian Campbell and Bertha Park land owner Alistair Ritchie Springfield Properties has begun work on site for the 3,000 homes in the new village, Bertha Park, just off the Inveralm