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Govanhill Baths Community Trust has raised £3,500 for a new alternative to foodbanks - a project called the People's Pantry. According to the trust's manager Fatima Uygun, the new shop to be opened on Cathcart Road will be a 'viable alternative' to foodbanks.

Instead of providing its usual House Price Report for April and May, ESPC has compiled a timeline of coronavirus and the Scottish property market, highlighting week-to-week impacts and effects.

The Tannahill Centre has secured £60,548 from the Scottish Government’s Supporting Communities Fund to help support locals across Paisley's North West area during the coronavirus pandemic. The funding will be shared between the Centre itself, its parent organisation Ferguslie Park Housin

Kelly Fraser, senior associate at Harper MacLeod, highlight some of the key amendments to the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman's model complaints handling procedures that registered social landlords (RSLs) should be aware of. Background

A bill to control rent levels has been introduced at Holyrood.

The Scottish Building Society (SBS) has pledged that none of its customers will be at risk of losing their home over the next 12 months as it announced an emergency support package for customers in financial difficulty due to COVID-19. As well as banning repossessions, the society is extending the c

Bill Roddie, managing director of Glasgow-based family-owned business Spectrum Properties, has donated £1,500 in Aldi food vouchers to vulnerable families in the city.  For the past five years, Mr Roddie has funded an annual trip to the pantomime for up to 100 vulnerab

In light of the current coronavirus crisis, Port Glasgow-based firms McLaren Packaging and Interlok Divisions have engaged to help Inverclyde Foodbank provide essential services to the most vulnerable people in the area. Both companies have been matching employee donations and ensuring that Invercly

Ashley Campbell, policy and practice manager at the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH), discusses how social landlords can allocate homes safely during the current coronavirus pandemic. As part of our response to Coronavirus, we have been speaking to members about their experiences and we also con

West Whitlawburn Housing Co-operative (WWHC) has been deeply saddened by the passing of Muriel Alcorn, who died peacefully at her home in West Whitlawburn on Tuesday. Muriel, an original founder member of WWHC back in 1989, has been a stalwart and a cornerstone of WWHC for over three decades, servin

The future of planning in East Ayrshire has been thrown open to the public with the launch of the council’s Local Development Plan2 consultation this week. Residents, community groups and local businesses are all being asked to contribute their views on a new Main Issues Report, which sets the

The links between houses, homes and the natural and physical world are far-reaching. In this blog, Professor David Clapham explains that the COVID-19 crisis has underlined our limited understanding of these links.

The Social Housing Resilience Group (SHRG) is working on a response on behalf of the sector to the Scottish Government’s Coronavirus (COVID-19) Framework for Decision Making proposals and route map, including a restarting services guide for landlords, an online space for sharing practice and i

A Holyrood committee has called on the Scottish Government to set out the steps it is taking to ensure women and children at increased risk of domestic abuse during lockdown have access to the support services they need to escape violence. In a letter to the minister for older people and equalities,

DtL Creative has launched a new podcast specific to technology in social housing. The podcast is called 'That Blue Banana Show’ and is published on Wednesdays at 5pm by DtL Creative, the UK social housing technology and systems consultancy.