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Bill Sharkey New Gorbals Housing Association has announced the death of founding member Bill Sharkey, a long-standing committee member, ex-chairperson and stalwart of the Community Controlled Housing Association movement.

Last year's Sleep Out The Rock Trust youth homelessness charity will hold its annual 'Sleep Out' in Edinburgh's Festival Square this Friday 4 November to raise funds for its essential work.

A care home in Bellshill celebrated Halloween in style this year with a traditional, spooky tea dance.

Scary stuff… ”zombies” on the loose in Maryhill with local youngsters Residents' associations in Maryhill were supported by Maryhill Housing to host two spook-tacular Halloween events at the end of October.

Almost 60 homes will be built at Finavon Street, Dundee on behalf of Abertay Housing Association after planning permission was secured by planning and design consultancy Barton Willmore. The proposals will see a cleared brownfield site developed to deliver 56 energy-efficient affordable homes to sup

Two new state-of-the-art housing developments by CCG (Scotland) Ltd for Perth and Kinross Council are to get underway in Perth this month.

Tenants and officers from across Scotland congregated at the Wheatley Academy in Glasgow on Friday 21st October for the first and very successful Value for Money event delivered jointly by TPAS Scotland and HouseMark Scotland. Kirsty Wells, Head of HouseMark Scotland, explored with delegates how to

The housing and health committee of Perth & Kinross Council will discuss the performance of its Rent 1st Campaign as well as revisions to its rent arrears policy at a meeting this Wednesday. The council's Rent 1st Campaign promotes payments and offers support, advice and sets out the consequence

Cadder Housing Association held the officially opening of its new state of the art community centre on Friday. The new centre was designed by Cooper Cromar Architects and built by Clark Contracts at a total cost of £3.1 million.

Bield are looking for social activity volunteers to encourage tenants to socialise together in Milton Court, their retirement development in Portobello. Social activity volunteers encourage tenants to socialise together within the development by leading agreed social activities in the communal loung

Scotland's population increase over the next 25 years is likely to be unevenly spread across the country, according to a report issued by the Registrar General for Scotland. Statistics published by the National Records of Scotland (NRS) show the population of Scotland is projected to rise by seven p

The former headquarters of Strathclyde Police will house a £105 million private sector rental scheme housing 365 apartments, Moda Living have announced. The scheme at Pitt Street, designed by Haus Architects in Glasgow, will be Moda’s first in Scotland.

Aberdeenshire Council has announced "ambitious plans" to create more than 2,500 affordable homes by 2022 at a cost of £135 million. The council's draft strategic housing investment plan estimates that around £95 million of the total cost involved in creating 2,516 new properties could be secured t

Cairn Housing Association and ANCHO are formally exploring the establishment of a constitutional partnership which will have a total of 4200 homes under management across 22 local authorities. The partnership proposal, which was agreed by the ANCHO Board last night, would increase the financial and

Unite members taking part in September's strike Workers at Wishaw and District Housing Association will begin four days of industrial action from today, the second strike over working conditions in as many months.