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Shelter Scotland has appointed Gordon MacRae as head of communications and policy, returning to a role he left four years ago. Gordon leaves his role as chief executive of the Scottish Humanists Society to join the housing and homelessness charity.

Plans to deploy immigration officials to Dublin’s lead homelessness agency have been approved by Cabinet. The move was agreed by ministers last Tuesday because of an increase in the number of non-EU nationals presenting as homeless, the Sunday Independent reports.

Lintel Trust’s annual charity golf tournament, which is celebrating its 25th year, will return to Dalmahoy Hotel and Country Club on Friday 14 June 2019. The popular fundraising event, sponsored by Cruden and Sidey, will see golfers from across the housing sector take to the club&rsq

Southside Housing Association (SHA) has struck a £30 million deal with Handelsbanken plc to help finance new build properties and a comprehensive programme of housing improvements. The Glasgow landlord will use the loan facility from the Swedish bank to support the finance of upgrades to exist

Wheatley Group is given more school leavers the opportunity to get their career off to a flying start with plan to recruit 31 young people to its award-winning Modern Apprenticeship programme. Wheatley has 25 Business Administration and six Environmental Apprenticeships up for grabs for people aged

Hot on the heels of placing 42nd in the Sunday Times’ 100 Best UK Not-For-Profit Organisations to Work For List, Port of Leith Housing Association has received two additional accolades.

The keys to Berwickshire Housing Association’s latest modern affordable homes at Acredale in Eyemouth have been given to the tenants moving in to their new homes. The new form the third phase of BHA’s new house building at Acredale, providing 30 new homes and contributing to the much nee

People who are homeless in Edinburgh face an 18-month wait for permanent accommodation, new statistics have shown. New figures obtained from a Freedom of Information request, and reported by the Edinburgh Evening News, found that the average single adult who declares themselves homeless in the capit

New research into the levels of destitution experienced by people seeking asylum has identified an urgent need for a national action plan to tackle asylum and migrant destitution in Scotland. The research, coordinated by the Destitute Asylum Seeker Service, a Glasgow-based project coordinated by the

A fast-track modern apprenticeship programme to attract people of all ages to pursue a rewarding career in the housebuilding sector will be piloted from today to mark the start of Scotland’s Apprenticeship Week. Housebuilder and offsite construction solutions provider Stewart Milne Group has l

Tenants at a retirement housing development in Dundee have seen their health and wellbeing flourish thanks to regular martial arts classes. A group of tenants at Bield’s Shiell Court have been taking part in Tai Chi sessions in a bid to improve their balance and strength.

Tenancy deposit protection scheme SafeDeposits Scotland has announced a programme of nine new landlord and letting agent educational workshops taking place across the country in April. The workshops will offer two courses; a ‘Basic Workshop’, and a more advanced ‘Making the Case fo

A Highland landlord has been fined £4,000 for operating a house in multiple occupation (HMO) without a licence. Following concerns that several flats within Cruickshank Court in Dingwall were being occupied as unlicensed HMOs, Highland Council’s environmental health team led a joint inve

The 2018 calendar year saw an increase in the average price of a residential property but a decrease in the volume of sales compared with the previous year, according to figures released today by Registers of Scotland. Overall, the market value of Scottish property sales increased in 2018, continuin

Scotland’s largest landlord membership organisation has called on the UK Government to scrap legislation which makes landlords responsible for checking the immigration status of tenants, after the High Court in London ruled the law was in breach of human rights legislation. Under the ‘Ri