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Mike Dailly Govan Law Centre (GLC) has called for a new resilience strategy to challenge the adverse impact of Universal Credit in Scotland.

Interest free loans are now available to homeowners with a property that has been empty for more than six months, East Ayrshire Council has announced. Scottish Government funding was secured by the council to tackle empty homes in East Ayrshire and bring them back to life. Homeowners can apply to th

The Social Bite Village in Granton is to provide a blueprint for helping to tackle homelessness in major cities across the UK. The development, which provides homes to people while they await permanent accommodation, officially launched in May this year and is already almost at capacity, with 17 hom

The renovation of a former Stonehaven care home is now complete with new residents moving in throughout November. The derelict Eden Manor property has been transformed into five apartments and ten single storey terraced homes which were aimed at buyers over fifty.

The Scottish Housing Regulator has taken the decision to transfer Kincardine Housing Co-operative’s homes to Grampian Housing Association – the first time the Regulator has taken the decision to transfer the assets of an RSL. The move follows a period of statutory intervention by the Regulator w

The Home Office has lodged its full defences with the Court of Session in the legal challenge against a series of lock-change orders issued to tenants refused asylum in the UK. The government department’s contractor Serco had planned to evict more than 300 asylum seekers in Glasgow before being fo

Helen Neill Cunninghame Housing Association has announced with great sadness that Helen Neill, former long serving Board Member peacefully passed away on Wednesday 14th November 2018 at the Ayrshire Hospice.

Westwood House Fife-based housing charity LAR Housing Trust has appointed Clark Contracts for a multi million pound project in Edinburgh.

St Andrew’s High Plans to build 126 homes on the site of a former high school in Clydebank have been given the go ahead.

George Walker The Scottish Housing Regulator has underlined the central place of assurance, openness and transparency in its regulatory framework consultation proposals.

Hillcrest Housing Association has become the latest organisation to sign the UK Armed Forces Covenant – a commitment to support the Armed Forces community wherever and whenever it can. The Dundee-based association joins more than 3000 UK organisations to have now signed the Covenant.

(from left) Mrs Christina Sedgwick, Laurie Dickson with baby Everleigh, Irmina Grabeusz with baby Jovante, Mrs Isobel Maxton, and Sarah Anderson with baby Freya, at the party at Hanover Scotland’s Chandlers Court A very sheltered housing development in Elgin is celebrating after three members of s

Mears Group has agreed to buy Mitie’s social housing repairs and maintenance business for £35 million. The deal will be structured as a sale of the entire issued share capitals of Mitie Property Management Limited and MPS Housing Limited - a newly incorporated subsidiary of Mitie that has acquire

Ian Brennan The financial performance of most registered social landlords (RSLs) remain strong, but major challenges lie ahead to ensure that RSLs are able to fund their future business plans, the Scottish Housing Regulator has said.

Joy Dunlop, managing director at Gowrie Care (left) and Clare McNally, fundraising & grants officer at Hillcrest Group A Dundee-based charitable group has distributed over £700k of funding to set up services and projects that benefit people and communities across Scotland.