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A craft group in Peterhead has been awarded funding from Cairn Housing Association's Community Fund to support its invaluable community knitting projects for local care homes and premature neonatal units as well as supporting personal artistic projects. Cairn Crafts aims to help tenants at Fran

The developments, homes and teams which have progressed to the finals of the 13th annual Scottish Home Awards have been revealed following a record high volume of entries. Sponsored by Ross & Liddell, the awards celebrate new build housing in Scotland with 19 categories seeking to reward placema

SFHA’s social insight lead Michael McLaughlin on the recent Housing Service Design Champions Training. Members of SFHA’s innovation community, which includes SFHA members and staff, recently took part in an exciting three-day training course delivered by the Scottish Digital Academy.

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) is calling for changes to Universal Credit in today’s UK Budget to ensure people in work can keep more of what they earn. With many workers on Universal Credit losing 63 pence for every pound they earn, the charity has called for a reduction in the taper rate to

In the face of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak the Chancellor of the Exchequer must announce measures to support private tenants and those in precarious work when he outlines his budget to parliament today, according to Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie MSP. People who are sympt

Scotland’s first social enterprise letting agency Homes for Good (HFG) celebrated this year’s International Women’s Day by unveiling its all-female senior management team as part of its ambitious growth plans to grow to 1000 homes within the next four years. (from left) back row: S

West Lothian Council has approved plans for 48 new homes in West Calder.

Barratt North Scotland has submitted a planning application to build 230 homes at the former James Keiller Buildings in Dundee's Mains Loan, the site where jam and marmalade under the same branding were made.

Regeneration developer Urban Union has announced its first direct apprenticeship programme, welcoming two new apprentices for a total of 12 weeks. (from left) Apprentices Jake Clark and Jimmy Callaghan with Urban Union managing director, Neil McKay

Housing minister Kevin Stewart has hailed a 24% increase in new build home starts across all sectors as the latest quarterly statistics on new housebuilding and affordable housing supply were released today. According to the latest figures, the number of new build homes that were started in the year

New build and current council housing in Renfrewshire is to benefit from a £75 million investment over the next three years after the local authority agreed it Housing Capital Investment Plan. Initially, £24m will be invested in 2020/21 to support planned investment programmes, regenerat

Thenue Housing has applied for planning permission to develop 18 terraced houses and cottage flats at the site of a former school in north east Glasgow

Most whole property short-term lets advertised on sites like such as Airbnb and Booking.com may be unlawful, according to a survey by Scottish Green MSP Andy Wightman.

CaCHE director Professor Ken Gibb gives an overview of its exciting new Scottish Funding Council project, 'Evaluating options & outcomes in the retrofit of pre-1919 Glasgow tenement housing', which was launched last week. On 5 March 2020, the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Ev

As Rishi Sunak prepares to deliver his first budget speech as UK Chancellor, Shelter Scotland is calling for any unallocated funds which come to Scotland to be invested in homelessness. In the last full year almost 30,000 households were assessed as homeless including more than 14,000 children. The