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The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) Scotland’s annual conference and exhibition, which takes place on 1-2 March in Edinburgh, will focus on welfare reform, politics, wellbeing and innovation. Speakers include Alex Neil MSP, the Scottish Government cabinet secretary for social justice, communi

David Mundell The north east of Scotland is to benefit from over £500 million of funding to improve its housing and infrastructure.

Dunedin Canmore is to build 31 new homes in East Lothian for the over 55s. The development, in Musselburgh, is part of a drive to help older people live independently in their homes for longer.

The number of new homes registered to be built in Scotland topped 12,700 in 2015, a continued increase of 15 per cent on the previous year, new NHBC figures have revealed. In total, 12,755 new homes were registered by NHBC in 2015 compared to 11,138 in 2014.

Legal & General Capital (LGC) and Dutch pension fund manager PGGM have announced plans to invest £600 million into building over 3,000 purpose built private rental housing across the UK. In America and Europe, fully fledged institutionally funded and managed rental property markets have develop

Councillor Marie Boulton The first grants have been awarded by Aberdeen City Council to householders in the city who were affected by the recent flooding.

Dundee City Council’s sheltered housing warden’s service has been commended by national inspectors. The service was graded at the second highest level of five (very good) in all three categories inspected.

A survey is being carried out to invite tenants to share their views on the quality of services provided to them by the Highland Council’s housing service. An independent survey by market research company Progressive Partnerships will see postal surveys sent to all 13,799 council tenants.

Nattalie McCulloch outside her new home After living in a series of cold and damp private lets with sky-high heating costs, Nattalie McCulloch and her teenage son Jack couldn’t believe their luck when they landed the keys to a new Lowther Homes property.

An exhibition of stunning photographs by the locally acclaimed Dark Side o’ The Clyde project, that has over 3000 followers on Facebook, has opened at the River Clyde Homes Broomhill Project Office at 1 Broomhill Way, Greenock. The 10 pictures, in noir-inspired black and white, were a great succes

Today the Homeless Spotlight showcases the pioneering Futures project in Edinburgh run by Craigowl Communities in partnership with Gowrie Care, both part of the Hillcrest Group. A pioneering new service that aims to improve the lives of people who are homeless and those at risk of homelessness by pr

Judges in the Court of Appeal have declared the so-called bedroom tax discriminatory following legal challenges made by the family of a seriously disabled teenager and by a domestic violence victim. One case was brought by “A”, a single mother whose three-bedroom council house had a panic room t

Mary Taylor The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) is calling on the UK government to urgently rethink upcoming changes to Housing Benefit which could cost the social housing sector hundreds of millions of pounds a year and put the health and wellbeing of vulnerable tenants at risk.

Margaret Burgess More than 178,000 vulnerable households, including around 59,000 families with children, have received essential help to buy everyday products through the Scottish Welfare Fund.

Growth in Scotland’s construction industry over the next five years will largely be driven by housebuilding as many of the national large-scale infrastructure come to an end, though more than 21,000 new workers will be needed to replace those leaving the workforce, according to new research. Today