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Heriot-Watt University is exploring the potential of a new way to provide housing for young people at risk of homelessness. The spare room scheme would match 16-25-year olds in need of accommodation with a host’s spare room, with rent paid for the room and support provided to the young person and

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are to visit the Social Bite social enterprise in Edinburgh during the couple’s first official joint visit to Scotland next week. The royal couple will visit the social enterprise cafe on Tuesday and help to mark the Scottish Year of Young People 2018.

The Nationwide Foundation is awarding over £1 million to support the growth of community-led housing to enable the sector to deliver more decent, affordable homes for people in need. Six organisations including the Dumfries and Galloway Small Communities Housing Trust and the Highlands Small Commun

Leader of Glasgow City Council, Councillor Susan Aitken marks the start of work on new Loretto homes at Buckley Street with (from left) Wheatley Group’s Jackie McIntosh, Paul Sweeney MP, Patrick Flynn of Glasgow City Council, Douglas Robin of Loretto Housing, Bob Doris MSP, Wheatley Group’s Olga

Many of the 50,000 new affordable homes which the Scottish Government has pledged will be delivered by 2021 will be unsuitable for disabled and elderly people, according to the government’s own research. Ministers have committed to invest £3 billion in building at least 50,000 new properties by 2

Jimmy Black A former Dundee City Council housing convener is leading calls for the local authority to reconsider its decision to demolish a city tenement as he believes money could be saved by repairing the block instead.

Caledonia Housing Association has announced Bracewell Stirling and ECD Architects as its Framework Architects for new housing developments for the next three years. The three year framework agreement for Architecture Services will see ECD and Bracewell Stirling work on the design of multi tenure dev

HouseMark has updated its online, interactive UK global accounts analysis tool, allowing members to examine and compare financial performance data with peers across Scotland, England and Wales. The Global Accounts Analysis Tool now contains full datasets from the Scottish Housing Regulator’s Audit

Colleagues from Fife Housing Group’s Housing and Property teams joined members of Fife Council’s Community Safety Team and representatives from the local fire station at the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service headquarters in Cambuslang to learn more about fire safety, fire risks and their referral

LinkLiving was delighted to receive a donation of £2,000 from TK Maxx’s St Andrews Square store in Edinburgh. The donation was made as part of the company’s Community Fund Foundation which supports smaller charities that matter to TK Maxx’s employees and customers – either through personal

Andrew Mickel With submissions closing on the Planning Bill consultation last Friday, Andrew Mickel calls on politicians, communities, local authorities and housebuilders to work together to provide the change needed to deliver the homes Scotland needs.

A view of the new Abbey Gardens development at Old Craighall Housebuilder Cruden Homes has commenced construction at two new developments in East Lothian.

David Knight, Avant Homes Scotland managing director Stirling-based homebuilder Avant Homes has been granted planning permission to build 110 new homes at a £21 million development in Armadale, West Lothian.

Fernan Gardens in Shettleston by architects Anderson Bell + Christie was among last year's winners Nominations are now open for the 2018 Saltire Society Housing Design Awards which will be guest chaired by BBC researcher and reporter Allan Little.

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has responded to the Scottish Government’s Fuel Poverty Strategy consultation by calling for it to show more ambition and commit to ending fuel poverty sooner. A government consultation on proposals to set a target to reduce fuel poverty to un