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Sandra White with old friends Joy and Ronald Liu The support from an MSP to a Chinese family struggling with anti-social behaviour in 1980s Paisley helped inspire a short trip up the M8 for 25 Chinese tenants and attendees of ng homes cultural programmes.

The winning team from ECG Facilities A 5-a-side football tournament has been held in honour of a former New Gorbals Housing Association colleague and to raise funds for charities.

The 'Cyclepaths’ at the Caledonian Canal A cycling group from Aberdeen is set to tackle a 220 mile cycle from Inverness to Campbelltown to raise money for charity.

A masterplan of the Sighthill regenration area The £250 million regeneration of Sighthill – the biggest such project in the UK outside of London – is "10 to 20 years" ahead of schedule, Glasgow City Council has said.

Scottish pensioners will receive Winter Fuel Payments regardless of their income, despite plans to introduce means testing in England and Wales, The Times reports. Following the launch of the Conservative manifesto, which pledged to end the universal benefit south of the border, the Scottish Conserv

ACHA chair Jim Milne and tenant Janice Crichton A lucky Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) tenant won a 40" Smart TV after taking part in a tenant satisfaction survey.

true Student, which is employing a modular building system to erect its 589 bed student accommodation complex in Glasgow's West End, has said that bookings for its September 2017 intake have exceeded expectations for this stage in the season.

There is a greater risk of electrical fires in social housing due to inequalities in electrical safety standards, a leading safety charity has said. Electrical Safety First is calling on the Scottish Government to equalise safety checks between private rented housing and social housing.

This year, Fife Housing Group celebrated National Apprenticeship Week (6-10 March) with the launch of a Housing Apprentice role, in partnership with SHARE. Ross Glancy was the successful applicant, becoming the social landlord's first ever Housing Apprentice.

Plans to build an 81-bedroom nursing home in partnership with Abbeyfield Scotland in Aberdeen have been put out for consultation. Developer Dandara has proposed building 14 homes and a new nursing home instead of 50 houses for which they have already received planning permission.

Property experts are attributing a surge in house sales in the Borders to the popularity of the Borders railway, which re-opened in 2015.

Maryhill Housing has launched an exciting series of events to mark forty years of serving the community.

A Glasgow homeless support team and the people they support, collectively known as Portman Peddlers, cycled the 558 miles between Glasgow and Paris to raise money for a Scottish care charity last week.

Rhona McLeod A new report commissioned by Trust Housing Association has concluded that the social landlord's Housing with Care model of integrated housing and care services for older people could offer an affordable solution to the growing issue of long-term delayed discharges in Scottish hospitals.

Victoria Nixon It’s easy for students to forget about reclaiming deposits from rented accommodation, but research by SafeDeposits Scotland shows that students at some universities are more forgetful than others.