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The awards recognise community champions who have gone above and beyond to improve the community and services The search to find north west Glasgow’s local heroes has been narrowed as Queens Cross Housing Association revealed the finalists for its Pride of Queens Cross Awards 2018.

A model of one of the 1960s lodging houses which played a formative role in the beginning of Langstane Housing Association will be put on display next week to celebrate Scottish Housing Day. Often places of last resort with conditions less than satisfactory, the lodging houses and night shelters wer

CIH senior policy adviser John Perry takes a more detailed look at the background to the recent Serco contract issues in relation to accommodation for asylum seekers. Despite all the fuss about migration levels, the numbers applying for asylum in the UK are at historically low levels. They ran at ov

Homes set for the Johnstone Castle development Homes, schools and public buildings across Renfrewshire will soon benefit from major refurbishment and maintenance works after energy, services and regeneration specialist ENGIE won multiple contracts across the area.

Debbie King Following Shelter Scotland’s reception at the Scottish Parliament this week, Debbie King writes all about the event and explains why the charity is still fighting.

Revised plans to transform a former Edinburgh high school into housing have been given the green light. The City of Edinburgh Council’s development management sub-committee granted CALA Homes permission for 104 flats to be built at the former Boroughmuir High School as well as a new tenement block

The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) has reiterated its call for the suspension of the Right to Buy after new government figures revealed more homes were again sold under the policy than were replaced. Figures released yesterday by the ministry of housing, communities and local government have r

Image credit: Tracy Lundie Tenants at a Greenock retirement development have shown a strong sense of community by collecting donations for a local food drive.

Canonmills Gardens Around 350 flats are to be delivered across two sites in Edinburgh after developers secured more than £40 million in loans.

Kevin Stewart MSP Housing minister Kevin Stewart blogs about the latest meeting of the Homelessness Prevention and Strategy Group.

The team behind the proposed EuroPark development, located on the M8 corridor in North Lanarkshire, have unwrapped their vision for the brand new green at heart community in the form of a new website and video. EuroPark’s online launch comes as the initial planning submission is considered by Nort

Tenants and staff from a Bield retirement housing development in Dundee have taken a trip down memory lane thanks to a local film about childhood teddies. Five tenants and two members of staff from Strathmartine Court have shared treasured memories about their favourite cuddly toys as part of a seri

A Glasgow pensioner has revealed her biggest secrets to a long and happy life, after reaching the ripe old age of 102. Bield tenant Jean Revie, who celebrated her birthday earlier this month, believes that a can-do attitude teamed with laughter and friendship are the main ingredients to hitting the

The structured finance team at Rettie & Co has delivered its second mid market rent (MMR) development at Edinburgh’s Western Harbour with more than 3,000 people applying for the 138 homes on offer. Forth Ports’ Harbour Gateway MMR project, part of the Western Harbour in Edinburgh, of

House prices in Scotland have continued to increase and may grow by almost 20% during the next four years, according to two separate reports. The August 2018 Residential Market Survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) found that a net balance of 7% more chartered surveyors rep