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A local authority has become the first in Scotland to adopt a “radical” economic model to plot a way forward now and post COVID-19.

The Scottish Government heard yesterday how Govan has put its people first as it tackles the coronavirus health emergency. Housing associations and community groups were working flat out to ensure isolated and vulnerable members of the community received a helping hand like never before.

Angus Council leader David Fairweather visited one of the two new Humanitarian Aid Angus Response Team (HAART) food and supplies distribution centres this week which have been set up to support the citizens of Angus throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Cllr Fairweather

A new community food distribution hub has opened its doors in Galashiels.

The proportion of advice issued by the Citizens Advice network relating to employment has doubled between March and April, and quadrupled since February, new data reveals.

A masterplan for the mixed-use transformation of Candleriggs Quarter in Glasgow’s Merchant City has gained planning approval.

In a guest blog for CIH Scotland, Grampian Housing Association chief executive Neil Clapperton shares what his organisation has been doing to support the current national emergency. Now is the time for associations (and council housing departments) to show what they can really do at a time of nation

Despite the current uncertainty in the Scottish housing market caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and a significant drop in transactions, average prices are expected to remain stable, according to Rettie & Co. In its Spring 2020 forecast, the property specialist said transactions activity is likely

Gorbals residents are to benefit from over £140,000 of funding to support the coronavirus response in the area after a successful bid to the Scottish Government’s Supporting Communities Fund. New Gorbals Housing Association, which submitted a partnership bid with other key local organisa

Ryder Architecture has developed proposals for a new residential and mixed-use development in the heart of Glasgow city centre.

Craigdale Housing Association has chosen its current interim director David Mackenzie as its new chief executive officer. The announcement comes after a robust and competitive recruitment process, which attracted many strong candidates from within the social housing sector.

Private landlords and other property owners left with empty homes in Edinburgh due to coronavirus are being encouraged to help local people and families in critical housing need through a new scheme which aims to provide a better alternative to other forms of temporary homeless accommodation.

An extra 100 homes are to be provided by Wheatley Group to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping in Scotland. The housing, care and property management group has pledged the additional properties to Housing First as part of a package of measures to help vulnerable people during the coronavirus cris

CIH Scotland national director Callum Chomczuk and John Blackwood, chief executive of the Scottish Association of Landlords (SAL), argue that further support is required for private landlords, who have a significant role to play in the housing sector’s response to coronavirus. Last month the S

The Scottish Government is to introduce new measures to intervene in care homes if residents are being put at serious risk due to service failings during the coronavirus pandemic.