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An innovative scheme which places homeless youngsters in the public’s spare rooms is set to be expanded to Glasgow. Nightstop, run by charity Depaul, pairs homeless 16 to 25-year-olds with people who have offered their free bedrooms and is widely used in England, but currently has limited reach in

A temporary winter homeless shelter in Glasgow has had a “shocking” rise in the number of people using it this year. Glasgow City Mission set up the project six years ago to provide emergency accommodation to people who have nowhere else to sleep as temperatures drop.

Fergus Ewing Over £10 million was generated from community renewables projects across Scotland last year, in a record return for the sector.

There's still time to take part in consultation on how health and social care services in Perth and Kinross will be delivered locally in the future. An online survey is available until 25 January 2016 to give local residents the opportunity to share their views on how services should be delivered wh

Jim Hume More than 54,000 children are “languishing” on council housing waiting lists due to a “disgraceful” lack of social homes across Scotland, the Scottish Liberal Democrats have said.

Kezia Dugdale First time buyers will be given £3,000 towards the purchase of a property under new plans unveiled by Scottish Labour.

More than a quarter of homeowners or tenants in Scotland are worried about covering the cost of their housing in 2016, new research has found. A survey carried out by YouGov on behalf of Shelter Scotland revealed that 28 per cent of adults in Scotland who are responsible for paying rent or a mortgag

Plans have been submitted for the expansion of Cupar, which will deliver 1,480 new homes and more than 700 jobs to the town. The Cupar North Consortium, comprising Persimmon Homes North Scotland, Headon Developments and Vico Properties, has submitted an application for planning permission in princip

Judy Hamilton Fife Council has pledged to end the practice of using bed and breakfast accommodation for homeless people by March.

Neil Powrie MBE A housing support worker who has dedicated nearly 40 years to helping and supporting the community of Dundee has been awarded an MBE from the Queen.

Housing minister Margaret Burgess with GHA tenant Elmerina Sim at her home in Carntyne, along with Ged Cloherty and Ryan Breslin from GHA’s repairs team Housing minister Margaret Burgess saw for herself how staff work round the clock to make sure tenants stay safe and warm this winter.

The planned nationwide roll-out of the Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband programme is now two thirds complete with more than 500,000 Scottish homes and businesses now connected to high-speed broadband. The engineering milestone was passed as a new fibre cabinet in Gretna Green became the latest p

Inverclyde based housing association River Clyde Homes has developed three local editions of its customer magazine, Up Close. The quarterly magazine is distributed to over 6000 homes and in response to recent customer feedback the association has given over the four centre pages of each edition of t

Service users at Bield’s care services across Scotland are being encouraged to follow their dreams thanks to a heart-warming Wishing Tree initiative. Service users are encouraged to write down their desired wish and hang it on the Wishing Tree. Staff at the care service will then endeavour to make

Shoppers in-the-know are descending on Shelter Scotland’s Stockbridge shop this month in what has become an annual ‘must-attend’ event for bargain-hunters. Customers will get the chance to pick up designer bargains and collectables including famous brands such as Paul Smith, Burberry, Vivienne