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

Campaigners are calling on MSPs to support the creation of dedicated, women-only homeless accommodation to better protect vulnerable women across the country.

Pension Age Disability Payment is now open for applications across Scotland. Yesterday, the benefit was extended to 14 more areas - Dumfries and Galloway, East Dunbartonshire, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverclyde, Midlothian, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Scottish Borde

Karen Gatherum, solicitor and licencing specialist at Gilson Gray, and Neil Gray, director at Gray Planning and Development, reveal what short-term lets operators in Edinburgh can do to try and maximise the chances of their licences being renewed. Four months before the start of the Edinburgh Fringe

A new benefit for pensioners is now open for applications in 13 more local authority areas in Scotland.   Pension Age Disability Payment has been extended to Aberdeenshire, Angus, Clackmannanshire, Dundee City, Falkirk, Fife, Moray, Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles), Perth and Kinross and Stir

Prof Kenneth Gibb outlines how CaCHE research played a key role in shaping Northern Ireland’s new intermediate rental tenure—offering affordable options for those priced out of homeownership and market rent. During the Covid-19 lockdowns, CaCHE undertook a research project that play

Muir Timber Systems has completed the delivery of timber kits for 24 affordable homes in the village of Plean, including two wheelchair-accessible bungalows, on behalf of Stirling Council. 

The European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group are partnering with Europe’s national promotional banks (NPBs) and international financial institutions (IFIs) to develop new financing opportunities for affordable and sustainable housing across Europe. At the EIB Group Foru

Clark Contracts has celebrated the topping out of ‘The Pepper Mill’ student accommodation on Dunedin Street in Edinburgh for its client Danehurst.

Paul Willis, Professor in Social Care at Cardiff University and director of CARE – the Centre for Adult Social Care Research in Wales, highlights the activism of older generations in fighting for LGBT+ rights.  This month is LGBT+ History Month, and the theme is activism and social change

Barratt Redrow has said its full-year results will be towards the upper end of market expectations as it reported a 23% increase in profits.

Scottish property portal ESPC has announced the launch of the fifth season of its popular podcast, The ESPC Property Show, with its first episode launching on Thursday 20th February 2025.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer will today pave the way for the largest housebuilding programme in England since the post-war era.

The number of empty council properties (voids) in West Lothian is at its lowest level in several years. Currently, around 251 mainstream properties (1.7% of all council properties) in West Lothian are currently without a tenant. This is a significant reduction compared to the number of void properti

The social housing sector is facing significant financial and operational challenges caused by void properties, according to Housemark’s latest Voids Club research. 

New analysis from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) finds that a combination of welfare reforms, rising numbers of children in the private rented sector and a lack of investment in building social housing has led, and will continue to lead, to increasing child poverty, unless the gover