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

A new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that Scotland is not on course to meet Scottish Government child poverty targets.  The report found that even before the coronavirus pandemic struck, poverty in Scotland is rising from an "already unacceptably high level".

Angus Council is to commence a new housing allocation system from the start of November that it said will put the power of choice into the hands of local home seekers. The choice-based lettings system will see the council and its housing partners – Blackwood Homes, Caledonia Housing Associatio

A rent support scheme for Aberdeen City Council tenants has helped care experienced young people across the city enrol in higher or further education. An update of the success of the scheme, which was previously agreed at full council in March, was given to councillors on operational deliv

The proprietor of a flat in Edinburgh who sought to establish that their neighbour had a statutory obligation to pay for half the cost of repairs to the external render of the common wall of their building has had their application rejected by the Sheriff Court.  Karen Lacey argued that th

CityFibre is rolling out its full-fibre network to homes and businesses in Renfrewshire as part of a £40 million investment.

Proposals have been put forward for the delivery of a residential-led mixed-use development in West Lothian.

Winchburgh Developments Limited (WDL) has sold a prime waterfront site to J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC to deliver 64 new apartments and houses overlooking the new Winchburgh canal marina.

Construction work on 39 new council houses in the Maidenhill area of Newton Mearns is now under way. Built by Taylor Wimpey West Scotland, the new affordable homes will be the first new houses for East Renfrewshire Council to be built in Newton Mearns in a generation.

A residential development that will be offered for affordable rent by Clyde Valley Housing Association has been given the ‘green’ light in more ways than one.

Moray is set for a £7.5 million investment in housing after a £100m growth deal was given the seal of approval by UK and Scottish governments yesterday.

Plans for 36 flats for social rent have been drawn up for the site of a landmark B-listed former church in Glasgow.

The housing team at the Scottish Futures Trust has written a report highlighting the wider role Scotland's councils could play in the housing market, building and selling homes or making them available for market rent.

International initiatives leading to the repopulation of islands and remote rural communities could be replicated across Scotland so long as adequate financial backing was provided.

Glasgow City Council is to take over a deteriorating tenement which has lain empty since 2018. A Compulsory Purchase Order is being sought for a number of flats at 4-6 Melrose Street, in Woodlands.

A pioneering Renfrewshire enterprise is back in business after receiving a boost to combat the effects of coronavirus, thanks to emergency COVID-19 funding distributed by Linstone Housing.  Scotland’s Bravest Manufacturing Company, based at the Erskine Veterans Village Estate, provides em