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Finance Secretary Derek Mackay with Christine Pert, who moved into Edgar Crescent with daughter Daisy, 11, and son Rory, 9, having lived in Renfrew for nine years Local families have moved into the first homes built in Sanctuary’s planned £50 million investment in new affordable housing stock in

Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) has just completed its evaluation of the first applications from Argyll and Bute Schools to the 10 10 10 Initiative.

Ann Leslie LAR Housing Trust is celebrating a raft of new deals in June that takes the organisation’s total number of affordable homes in its portfolio up to 204 at nine sites across Scotland.

Maryhill Housing has celebrated four decades of serving the community with a family fun day held at Maryhill Burgh Halls.

The number of physically disabled people identified as homeless or at risk of homelessness has risen by 44% in the past four years. Scottish Government figures show a steady increase from 2013/14, where 898 disabled people were in need of support, to 2016/17, where it rose to 1,292.

Jeane Freeman Hundreds of thousands of people of people in Scotland have lost or will lose some of their benefit payments due to the UK government cuts, according to a new report by the Scottish Government.

The Seaton tower blocks in Aberdeen There are no sprinklers in over 300 high-rise buildings managed by Scottish councils and social landlords, according to a new BBC Scotland investigation in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire.

Tom Leggeat Government pledges to build more affordable homes will benefit housebuilders, a director of Elgin-based Springfield Properties has said.

Nicola Barclay The number of households that have purchased a new home through the Scottish Government’s Help to Buy shared equity scheme has topped ten thousand, according to latest figures.

Caledonia Housing Association’s Care & Repair team were out in force today with Lorna Cameron, Perth & Kinross Council’s interim director for housing & communities, and Julie Cosgrove, Caledonia’s chief executive, to launch the Association's new-look and newly expanded Care &

West of Scotland Housing Association (WSHA) plans to continue the regeneration of the Barrowfield community, located in Glasgow’s East End, with 52 new affordable homes.

Housing Minister Kevin Stewart yesterday opened innovative new homes for the disabled in Dundee.

New figures from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) show that local government budgets shrank faster than the Scottish Budget over the past two years. Local government budgets shrank by 4.6 per cent between 2013/14 and 2016/17, while the Scottish Government's budget decreased by just

A team of researchers at a university in England have revealed that people who rent their homes for longer have more symptoms of depression and lower levels of wellbeing, while the opposite is true for those who live in owned homes for a longer part of their lives. The team at University of Manchest

Annabelle Ewing Two housing associations are among the first advice agencies to receive accreditation under the Scottish Government’s new quality assurance model.