Search: Child poverty action plan welcome but more affordable homes required, says CIH Scotland

Residents in West Dunbartonshire are the worst hit in the entire UK by the ‘bedroom tax’ with more than £1.8 million deducted from housing benefit claimants each year, according to new figures. The constituency was revealed as having £35,700 deducted from housing benefit recipients every week

Tenants at a Bield Retirement Housing Development in Cumbernauld have worked hard with the community to ensure disadvantaged children across Europe can enjoy a Merry Christmas with something to unwrap. More than 50 hats were made while development manager, Elizabeth Fox, designed her very own puppet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrSOxT6FUPE&feature=youtu.be Shelter Scotland’s Nora Uhrig asks what does the right to housing mean and why is it so important to see housing as a human right.

Emma Dore By Emma Dore, senior policy officer at Shelter Scotland

Kevin Stewart Around 50 per cent of capital expenditure made by local authorities in Scotland, totalling £1.2 billion, has been invested in education and housing infrastructure, new figures have shown.

Michael McMahon Women are being hit hard on multiple fronts by changes to the benefits system, according to a report published by Holyrood’s Welfare Reform Committee.

Home improvements, new council houses and large-scale housing regeneration will take place in Renfrewshire as councillors approved a £292 million investment across the next five years.

Dr Mhairi Ross, a recent PhD graduate, discusses her thesis on lone mothers’ experiences in Easterhouse since the 1980s, emphasising the significance of female social networks and the impact of gender-based inequalities and structural violence.

UK homelessness expert Dr Beth Watts-Cobbe is a key author in the team that delivers the regular Crisis Homelessness Monitors and has a long-standing interest in effective altruism and its potential regarding policy and practice in the homelessness sector. The effective altruism movement seeks

A guaranteed annual winter heating benefit of £50 will be paid for the first time in February 2023 to around 400,000 low income households.

The Wheatley Foundation, part of Wheatley Group, has given bursaries to 80 people in its communities across Scotland to support their dreams of studying at college and university.

Health and wellbeing charity LinkLiving is turning young people’s lives around thanks to its innovative new ‘Steps To Resilience’ programme.

As CIH Scotland submits evidence to the Scottish Parliament's social security committee, policy and practice manager Ashley Campbell takes a look at some of the current problems with Universal Credit. In 2010 the Coalition Government unveiled plans that would shake the foundations of the welfare sta

Below is a full transcript of episode 69 of the Scottish Housing News Podcast titled ‘A conversation with Professor Duncan Maclennan’. Listen to the episode here.

With just over four weeks until Scotland goes to the polls to elect councillors to the 32 local authorities, Shelter Scotland is urging candidates to be bold on housing or risk widening inequality. The charity has published its Local Manifesto for Homes which includes demands aimed at boosting the s