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Hillcrest Futures is urging people and companies to ditch the Christmas cards this year and instead use their money for a more charitable cause.

A collaboration of lawyers who took on a multi-billion-pound national services company to defend the rights to a home for more than 300 highly vulnerable asylum seekers has won the Judges Award at The Herald’s 2019 Law Awards of Scotland.

Development specialist Mears New Homes has won a new contract with North Lanarkshire Council.

Argyll and Bute Council’s executive director for development and infrastructure services Pippa Milne has been appointed as the local authority’s new chief executive. Ms Milne has worked in local government for 28 years, five of those in Argyll and Bute.

A reuse social enterprise has donated just fewer than 1,000 Christmas gifts to a number of worthy organisations in Glasgow. Some of the gifts in the Queens Cross Housing Association offices

Rhys Moore has been appointed as executive director of public impact at the National Housing Federation. Mr Moore joined the trade body for housing associations in England in 2016 where he has worked as head of media, public affairs and campaigns and more recently as director of strategic communicat

CALA Homes (North) has submitted a fresh proposal for a development of flats in Aberdeen city centre.

At the Palace of Westminster on Monday attention switched from the green benches of the main chamber to the announcement of the Green Apple Awards as Kingdom Housing Association scooped an award in recognition of its ongoing commitment to sustainability. Kingdom Housing Association was awarded the E

South Lanarkshire Council has reached the halfway point in its commitment to deliver 1,000 new council homes. At a meeting of the council’s housing and technical resources committee earlier this month, members heard that the council is well on the way to delivering its target by 2021, with 502

The vital role dogs can play in the lives of people who are homeless – including providing companionship and a reason to exercise – is being recognised in new guidance on how landlords and local authority offices respond to homeless people and their pets.

The Scottish Housing Regulator has published a short guide to help tenants and service users find out more about its work.

Local authorities in Scotland made 99,910 awards under the Discretionary Housing Payment (DHP) scheme during the period 1 April to 30 September 2019, new figures have shown.

North Lanarkshire Council is to reduce the number of rent variations from 192 to 56 after plans were agreed at a meeting of its communities and housing committee. The restructure will keep rent levels at the second-lowest in Scotland this year and significantly lower than those charge

A major housing seminar looking at innovative ways of increasing housing opportunities in Uist and Barra took place earlier this month in the Dark Island Hotel. The community-led housing seminar was organised by the Uist and Barra Housing Group and had the main theme of ‘Innovation and Ne

Homeless Action Scotland is conducting a survey to find out more about the workforce providing services to people experiencing homelessness. As the pressures and expectations involved in providing services to people experiencing homelessness increase, the charity wants to know more about the pr