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Beth Reid Crisis Scotland policy manager, Beth Reid, on the charity’s Manifesto to End Homelessness which it launched yesterday.

Charlotte Taylor and family in their new home An affordable housing project has made life better for dozens of families in Glasgow.

Nearly 190 community-led projects providing a range of support to people across Scotland will receive a share of £10.8 million funding. The People and Communities Fund will be allocated to 185 projects in 2016/17, which are addressing inequalities in disadvantaged communities.

The management board of Caledonia Housing Association has approved a rent increase of 1 per cent for the year 2016/17 following considerable deliberation and an extensive consultation exercise. The board was consciously aware that the current economic climate remains very challenging for the Associa

Aileen McLeod Two consultations have been launched on community right to buy for crofting and abandoned, neglected or detrimental land.

(from left) Glasgow City Mission’s chief executive Grant Campbell, GAP Giving Charitable Foundation's Catriona Dobson, Glasgow City Mission’s partnerships and communications manager Graham Steven, and GAP Giving Charitable Foundation's Willie Crawford GAP Hire Solutions has presented a donation

Iain Duncan Smith The Scottish National Party is calling on David Cameron to “immediately and completely” scrap cuts to disability benefit announced in Wednesday’s budget following the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith.

National homelessness charity Crisis is today launching a series of recommendations for the next Scottish Government to follow in its continued fight against homelessness. The Manifesto to End Homelessness calls on all political parties to adopt a new cross-departmental strategy for tackling homeles

Katy Dickson New legislation on private housing tenancies is likely to lead to a major rethink by landlords on continuing to let properties, Scottish Land & Estates has warned.

Cases involving the eviction of tenants from a rented property in Scotland rose in 2014-15 for the second year in a row, according to the latest figures. The Scottish Government civil justice court statistics revealed that the number of eviction orders in the social housing (local authority and regi

Local authorities across Scotland are calling on politicians from all parties to launch a revolution in local democracy within the first few months after May's Holyrood election. The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) wants to harness the power of a more locally democratic way of doing

Link chairman Roy Stirrat & Councillor Cammy Day Link's new affordable housing development at Balmwell Terrace has been officially opened by the City of Edinburgh Council’s vice convener for health, social care and housing, Councillor Cammy Day.

A £1.6 million development of 15 new homes by Barrhead Housing Association has been formally opened by minister for housing and welfare Margaret Burgess MSP. The homes in Rankin Court, Barrhead, were built on the site of the former St John’s primary school. The land was successfully transferred f

Hanover Scotland Housing Association’s efforts to ensure it has family-friendly policies have been recognised after it reached the final of Family Friendly Working Scotland’s (FFWS) Top Employers For Working Families awards. Hanover offers a range of flexible, family-friendly policies and benefi

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has appointed “independent experts” to review its own governance with the aim of making the charity a model within the sector for progressive governance. The move follows a difficult few months which have seen the departure of chief executive Margaret Lynch and the