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Up to 3,000 new homes will be created through a pioneering partnership model with Aberdeen City Council Places for People's diversification strategy has enabled the business to report another set of strong results helping it to increase investment in both new housebuilding and improving and maintain

Manor Estates Housing Association has completed the third phase of its external wall insulation programme on houses and flatted properties. Over the last three years the Association has expended over £4 million and insulated 707 homes working with Scottish Government HEEPS ABS and HEEPS Loan Scheme

Joy Dunlop A housing support service provided by Gowrie Care in Dundee has been praised in an inspection report following an unannounced visit by the Care Inspectorate.

Architects, contractors and building commissioners must consider the design of new homes if Scotland is to fully support those with dementia, writes Lesley Palmer. People living with dementia often struggle to understand and navigate their built environment due to the sensory, mobility or cognitive

(from left) Caitlin, Megan and Antonia Maryhill Housing has been playing its part in an initiative to help young people learn about work.

A lack of affordable housing in Moray and the north-east is leaving local schools and hospitals struggling to fill crucial roles, according to reports. NHS Grampian has described the “buoyant” housing market as challenging as it seeks to recruit new workers while three teachers who were due to s

Jeremy Balfour MSP lodged a Parliamentary Motion commending a charity who received £100K of National Lottery cash to help homeless people in Edinburgh last week. The Edinburgh homelessness charity, Gowrie Care, and the people they support are set to benefit from a National Lottery award from the Bi

It has recently been suggested that we stop saying “homelessness can happen to anyone” because it somehow obscures the real risk factors and prevents those in power from tackling big structural issues. Shelter Scotland media officer Susie Rose reflects on when homelessness happened to her. These

Tony Teasedale Shettleston Housing Association has appointed current Rural Stirling Housing Association director Tony Teasdale as its new chief executive.

A previously empty home in North Lanarkshire Too many Scottish councils are missing out on gains available from bringing long-term empty homes back into use by failing to invest in the appropriate resources, according to the body leading the work in Scotland.

Work starts at the former New Stevenston Primary School site Sod cutting ceremonies have taken place in New Stevenston and Cumbernauld to signal the start of the development of new homes for North Lanarkshire Council.

Port of Leith Housing Association (PoLHA) has set up a new employability service to support people over the age of 16 living in Leith and North Edinburgh who are looking for work or seeking to develop their careers. From 1 August 2017, the Community Works service will provide a range of training opp

Planning permission is being sought for the development of 75 apartments, a quarter of which would be classed as affordable, on the site of a former office building in Edinburgh. Property developer Dandara wants to demolish the vacant Traquair House in the city’s Pinkhill area to make way for the

Urban Union, in partnership with Caledonia Housing Association and Fairfield Housing Co-operative, has launched its brand new show home at its Muirton Living development in Perth. The developer was appointed by Caledonia Housing Association in 2015 to deliver 203 affordable and private homes on the

Local charity Tayside Children with Cancer and Leukaemia is set to benefit from an exclusive one-off tour of Dundee that will never be seen again. In partnership with Hillcrest Housing Association, Dark Dundee will offer people the opportunity to visit an exclusive underground location that has neve