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The Scottish Housing Regulator has today published an early analysis of the data for 2023/24 that all social landlords submit to it on empty homes and lettings and that Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) submit on their plans to build new homes. The report has found that the rate at which RSLs

New Gorbals Housing Association (NGHA) is celebrating after it won its first Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) National Award. The association’s North Gate building was one of just two Scottish projects to win, and the only one of this year’s 26 RIBA National Award winners to

The Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) has updated Clydebank Housing Association’s regulatory status to ‘Compliant’ following the outcome of an independent review. The watchdog began engaging with Clydebank about its governance in January 2024 when it sought to clarify

Members of a coalition of leading housing and anti-poverty organisations have expressed disappointment at the lack of response from First Minister John Swinney almost five weeks after writing to him with proposals to work together to tackle Scotland’s housing emergency. The organisations, whic

A Wheatley Homes Glasgow housing officer is running the Paisley 10K in memory of his twin boys. Euan MacLean is hoping to raise £1000 for SANDS – the stillbirth and neonatal death charity – and mark what would have been the first birthday of his sons, Sorley and Ruadh.

East Ayrshire Council will be conducting a housing need and demand survey in New Cumnock throughout August to help Housing Services better understand the housing circumstances and needs of local residents.

Two new build projects and the North Lanarkshire Council team behind their delivery have been shortlisted in this year’s Inside Housing Awards. The event recognises the top projects and teams working within the housing sector across the UK.

An innovative project which gives young people leaving care the tools to live independently has opened in Inverclyde.

Cassiltoun Housing Association held its Tenants’ Conference on 11th July and celebrated its 40th anniversary.

Trust Housing Association has appointed social enterprise Scotland’s Bravest Manufacturing Company (SBMC) to undertake the supply and fit of new site signage across all of Trust’s housing communities, covering 23 local authorities in Scotland.

With energy costs receding from their historic highs, there now remains a damaging debt problem according to fuel poverty champions Energy Action Scotland. Latest figures from Ofgem, the government’s energy regulator, show energy debt growing at 10% per quarter across 2023-24 as opposed to jus

Scottish Borders Housing Association (SBHA) welcomed guests to one of its new-build projects in Burnfoot, Hawick this week.

Kevin Stewart MSP has written to Chancellor Rachel Reeves to call for the abolition of VAT on building projects involving regeneration, refurbishment and retrofitting. The SNP representative for Aberdeen Central has also lodged a motion at the Scottish Parliament on the issue.

A block of flats in Aberdeen is the first in Scotland to have dangerous cladding removed and replaced as part of a government pilot scheme set up following the Grenfell tragedy.

Housing consultant and former Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of Housing Associations (GWSF) director Jim Harvey has passed away. After a spell as a housing regulator at the Housing Corporation, and then Scottish Homes, Jim served as the GWSF's first director as well as his work as a ho