Insight

After appearing on the Scottish Housing Summit stage at last month's Scottish Construction Summit, Kerry Mackie, business growth director at Procast Group, reflects on the day and the discussions around sustainable retrofitting. Sustainable retrofit is about far more than reducing carbon emissions,

Continuing a series of blogs for Scottish Housing News ahead of the analogue to digital switch-off, Sharon Hannah, project manager at the ​Digital Office for Scottish Local Government, looks into new guidance for gaining access to service users' homes. As Telecare Service Providers (TSPs) upgrade

Maggie Brünjes, chief executive of Homeless Network Scotland, on how new UK funding for homelessness can be used to add the right kind of housing. A distraught man stood up at a meeting in Glasgow more than twenty years ago, during the hostel closure programme. “It’s too late,&rdquo

Malcolm McNeil, depute chief executive at Grampian Housing Association, shares his experiences of being a board member and senior executive at separate third sector organisations. Normally, what we are used to hearing is the phrase, ‘’Looking through the wrong end of the telescope’

Dr Jocelyne Fleming, the Chartered Institute of Building's Scottish policy and public affairs lead, calls for joined-up policy interventions to truly transform the construction sector. The recent Scottish Construction summit was full of fantastic conversations, both on and off the stage, many of whi

Following her appearance on the More Homes Scotland panel at the Scottish Construction Summit, Liz Hamilton, senior land and planning manager at AS Homes (Scotland) and Briar Homes, considers the barriers continuing to hold back housing delivery in Scotland, including planning delays, site viability

Scottish Plant Owners Association (SPOA) president David Jarvie argues that the Scottish Government can't afford to wait until the establishment of More Homes Scotland (MHS) before taking action to end the national housing emergency. I have reused this headline from the Scottish Government’s c

Crisis Scotland’s senior partnerships and practice officer, James Mullaney, argues that Scotland’s Ask and Act pilots show that preventing homelessness depends on a culture shift across public services, and that December’s funding cliff must become a catalyst for national rollout r

Scottish Housing Summit exhibitor Sanondaf explains why a science-led approach matters in social housing.

In an exclusive for Scottish Housing News, Esther Wilson, director of customer services at Hanover, argues that loneliness among older people should be treated as a health condition rather than a mood, and that the right housing, not the GP surgery or hospital ward, is where it can actually be

Former TPAS Scotland chief executive Lesley Baird talks to Scottish Housing News editor Kieran Findlay about scaffolding, chairing a Congress of 27 nations, and why tenants have always known best. Lesley Baird may downplay her role in making sure tenants have a real say in the running of their own h

Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) director of external affairs Paul Bradley revisits the housing chapter he wrote for Poverty in Scotland 2016 and asks what a decade has meant for people living in poverty. This week is Challenge Poverty Week, when organisations across Scotland come

Fraser Eadie, a co-founder of SAMTAP and a Fellow of the International Compliance Association, reveals what housing associations in England can learn from Scotland when it comes to freedom of information laws.

Directors Mhairi Grant & Martin McCrae from the architecture studio Paper Igloo share their thoughts on the Stage 2 consultation of the Scottish Government’s Passivhaus Equivalent policy and encourage the Scottish construction industry to engage with the consultation before 16 October 2026

With price inflation beginning to hit social housing procurement, Andrew McAllister at PfH Scotland provides advice on how to develop a consistent and considered approach. Contract management in social housing is often seen as the dull end of procurement, the bit no one really talks about. Instead,