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The history of social housing in Britain is being revealed in a new ten-part series by Radio 4. Broadcast every weekday over this week and next, Streets Apart: A History of Social Housing sees academic and cultural commentator Lynsey Hanley examine the idea of Victorian-era model villages and explor

An Edinburgh charity has received support from the Big Lottery Fund to run a series of creative writing and performance workshops for people in the city with experience of homelessness. Set up in 2013, Raised Voices believes that through providing a platform where people can create, collaborate and

Scotland's Homeless World Cup players Steven Kelly and Colleen McCudden from Glasgow with Sir Alex Ferguson Scotland’s men’s and women’s squads have received words of encouragement from the most successful Scottish football manager in history ahead of the Homeless World Cup in Oslo.

The Board of Arklet Housing Association has decided to seek a formal partnership with another housing association after a strategic options review concluded it is the best way forward for its tenants. Arklet is in high engagement with the Scottish Housing Regulator due to serious weaknesses in its g

Kenny McLean More than £350 million is to be invested into Glasgow to fund thousands of affordable homes over the next four years.

The Scottish Government has given its approval to plans for new homes in Clydebank after meeting with West Dunbartonshire Council over the plans. The proposals will see 40 new units completed in Singer Street by early 2018 with another 345 targeted for build in the next five years.

How the overall King's Stables Road development will look Plans for a mixed-use development on a vacant site in Edinburgh’s Old Town have been revised to include new affordable homes instead of an arts quarter.

A prominent ng homes regeneration initiative involving young people in North Glasgow has been profiled on a leading regeneration forum. The Your Choice, Young Voice project put decision making power into the hands of 37 local young people from Springburn Academy and various youth groups, as they dre

In the week Scotland’s newest bridge opens to traffic, campaigners are setting out the benefits of another big infrastructure project that would help to create a more socially-just and low-carbon future. Environmental organisation WWF Scotland and health charity the British Lung Foundation Scotlan

Jamie Hepburn Projects that help homeless people find and stay in work are some of the schemes that will share a £2.5 million fund from the Scottish Government.

The Rangers Charity Foundation’s Big Ibrox Sleep Outs are to return this year to once again support projects which tackle homelessness in Glasgow. The charity, which raised more than £52,000 following a series of sleep-outs last year, is urging anyone who can handle spending a cold winter’s nig

Artist's impression of how the development will look from Main Road A prominent gap site on the outskirts of Ayr is to be transformed with a new development of affordable homes.

(from left) Daniel Lowe, executive director of housing; Councillor Josh Wilson, chair of housing and technical resources committee; Annette Finnan, head of housing services and Bruce Lindsay, development manager at CCG Construction is now underway at the latest phase of South Lanarkshire Council’s

East Lothian Housing Association (ELHA) has followed up last year’s first forays into Wonderland by going Through the Looking Glass with its new annual report. With the majority of ELHA’s tenants (56%) now using their digital My Home accounts to access services, 28% of tenants now paper free and

New guidance which has identified sites for more than 800 additional houses in the Borders has been given the green light by councillors. Scottish Borders Council's Local Development Plan for housing was adopted more than a year ago with details of sites identified for housing developments.