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Glasgow City Mission has confirmed it is continuing to plan for the opening of the city’s Winter Night Shelter on December 1 after politely declining an offer for funding to open a week early.

Over 160 staff from across The Kingdom Group gathered at The Carnegie Conference Centre in Dunfermline on Friday for the biennial Staff Conference, making it the biggest event of its kind in the Association’s 40-year history. The theme of the conference was ‘Celebrating Success’ an

A new film from Scottish rapper and anti-poverty campaigner Darren ‘Loki’ McGarvey celebrates 80 years of Citizens Advice in Scotland. The film was screened last night for the first time at a reception in the Scottish Parliament.

Social housing providers in Scotland can apply for funding to help tenants access the benefits of ebikes. The Transport Scotland eBike Grant Fund for 2019/20 has provided over 100 e-bikes to 19 organisations across Scotland with over £273,000 awarded so far.

A number of community housing projects and charities are celebrating after successfully securing funding from Nationwide Building Society’s Community Grant Fund. Nationwide is supporting Scottish charities tackling the many issues associated with housing, and therefore made £500,000 avai

Landlords in Scotland are committing to continuing to rent private properties signalling confidence in the sector, according to the latest survey results from SafeDeposits Scotland. The not-for-profit tenancy deposit protection scheme surveyed its landlord members last month and found that 88.57% co

Property management company Newton Lettings has taken the first step in its expansion plan with the purchase of Glasgow-based Kite Lettings. Three-year-old Kite Lettings has a portfolio of 45 properties owned by over 13 clients, all based in Glasgow’s city centre and West End.

Demolition work has begun on a tenement building in Glasgow's Pollokshields area after it partially collapsed in a fire. The fire on Albert Street was believed to have started in Strawberry & Spice Garden grocery below the flats around 11.30pm on Sunday.

A former school building in Dennistoun is to be partly demolished and converted into homes after Glasgow City Council gave developers the green light.

A consortium of homebuilders is calling on residents in East Renfrewshire to donate toys to families in need this festive season.

Tenants of Dumfries and Galloway Housing Partnership (DGHP) have voted in favour of partnership plans with Wheatley Group. A total of 95.5% of DGHP tenants who voted in the ballot did so in support of the plans which will bring together Scotland’s two largest Registered Social Landlords (RSLs)

Kingdom Housing Association has announced the re-election of Freya Lees as chair of the Association and the election of Linda Leslie and Laurie Naumann as vice-chairs as a year of celebrations for Kingdom’s 40th anniversary near a close. Ms Lees has been a board member with Kingdom since 2013,

Councillors from Stirling Council have approved a new £112 million housing investment plan to deliver nearly 1,000 affordable homes across the region. The Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) for Stirling sets out the council’s affordable housing priorities for the next five years.

The average cost of privately renting a 2 bedroom home increased in 15 out of 18 regions of Scotland between 2018 and 2019, ranging from 0.2% in North Lanarkshire to 5.3% in Greater Glasgow.

The condition of Scotland’s private tenements will continue to deteriorate unless the Scottish Government adopts a new funding approach as part of its overall housing investment programme, argues the Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of Housing Associations (GWSF).