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Shelter and Shelter Scotland have launched an urgent appeal after new analysis revealed the number of people recorded as homeless in Britain has reached a staggering 307,000 – more than half the population of Glasgow and the equivalent to one in every 200. In the most extensive review of its kind,

Energy firm SSE, the UK’s second-largest energy supplier, has today confirmed it has agreed the first steps of a proposed merger with Npower to form a new UK gas and electricity business. The FTSE 100-listed firm said yesterday that it was in talks with its rival, owned by Germany's Innogy, as it

Annabelle Ewing The Ministerial Working Group (MWG) on Building and Fire Safety, which was formed in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, has agreed to review fire safety guidance for Scotland’s homes.

Anderson Tower A Paisley-based utility services company has been fined for exposing four of its employees to asbestos during work at Anderson Tower in Motherwell in 2014.

Fanchea Kelly The head of one of Scotland’s leading housing and care providers has been named as one of the most influential people in the sector.

Minister for employability and training, Jamie Hepburn, with director of LinkLiving, Sarah Smith, and Craig Sanderson, chief executive of the Link group Continuing its record of providing employability opportunities, Link Group Ltd has launched its new Link Academy facility in the centre of Falkirk.

Award winners Sadie Gordon (centre left) and Lorain MacKinnon (centre right) were joined by chief executives of Maryhill and Queens Cross housing associations Bryony Willett (far right) and Shona Stephen (far left) to celebrate their success Four of Glasgow’s female housing leaders gathered to cel

The Weslo team (from left) Marion Reynolds, Lynn Close, Arthur Davren, Evelyn Hope and Liz Jarvis (who will be replaced by Jennifer Main) A hardy team from Weslo Housing Management aims to make a difference by taking part in the world’s biggest sleep out on December 9 in West Princes Street Garden

Prospect Community Housing is to receive £245,740 from the Aspiring Communities Fund to enhance social inclusion and combat poverty. Supported by the European Social Fund and the Scottish Government, the funding will be used for Tasting Change, a local partnership initiative that aims to respond to

(from left) Fiona Holt, session worker; George Meechan, Animation/Futures client; Megan Appleton, session worker; Iona Summerton, project worker Gowrie Care’s Dundee Futures team walked away winners at the TPAS National Good Practice Awards on Friday.

Councillor Susan Aitken (centre) with residents and staff from Cromwell Sheltered Housing complex May Lyttle, William McMillan, Dennis McGowan, Jane Drummond and Lilian Kerr More than 15,000 older Glaswegians are set to benefit from a £100 winter warmer thanks to Glasgow City Council’s Affordable

Fife Council is to mark World Town Planning Day today by posting images and information about some of the schemes and developments that have happened, or are happening, in the region. World Town Planning Day celebrates the achievements and skills of planners in their role of helping to create more s

- Help tackle fuel poverty and receive a potential financial return of 6.5% per annum - Not-for-profit energy supplier Our Power has launched a Social Purpose Bond in the market via Ethex – the positive savings and investment platform that makes it easy to make money do good.

A new campaign has been launched to control the “rapid and unregulated growth” of short-term lets which sees owners of residential properties offer them as holiday accommodation. Andy Wightman MSP, housing spokesperson for the Scottish Greens, today warned that the rapid rise of this form of let

The Douglas family being given their keys by BHA operations director Jean Gray The first tenants have been handed the keys to their brand new homes at Station Drive in Duns, which have been built by Hart Builders for Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA).