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Graeme Brown The potential value of Scotland’s empty homes is a staggering £4.3 billion, according to the organisation tasked with bringing them back into use.

Gordon Cruden A Scottish homeless campaigner who is sleeping rough on the streets of major UK cities for a month to raise money for charity is returning to the north-east for the final leg of his tour.

Kaira Massie The Law Society of Scotland believes that proposed regulations for letting agents in Scotland could lead to an unnecessary cost to the public by creating an unnecessary dual regulatory regime for Scotland’s solicitors.

Top of the class…….the students at the special Awards Ceremony.

Linthouse Housing Association's Chairperson Alec Leishman thanking GCC Ballie Fariha Thomas for unveiling the plaque Linthouse Housing Association has honoured the memory of housing pioneer Mary Barbour by unveiling a commemorative plaque on a property believed to be the site where, in 1915, the fir

  Emma Richardson (far right) , Project Coordinator - The Star project with staff and volunteers 

Lintel Trust relaunched its Social Enterprise Programme at the Bob Allan Conference Centre in Glasgow on Friday. The Programme provides interest free loans, of up to £10,000, to businesses either operated by, or related to, housing organisations across Scotland.

The £100 million urban regeneration of Laurieston, Glasgow, has been praised by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS), by way of a Special Mention at the annual Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland awards ceremony.

Kay Blair The Scottish Housing Regulator has launched consultation on proposals that would introduce new, additional ways to challenge regulatory decisions. Under the proposals, the Regulator would establish new mechanisms for reviews and appeals.

Linkscape has won the ‘Best Practice in Developing Communities’ award at the recent Tenant Participation Advisory Service (TPAS) Scotland awards. Linkscape was set up in April 2015 to encourage tenants, owners and staff to work together to make, and sustain, environmental improvements in two Lin

Balcarres care home A Dundee care home which developed a pioneering ‘village’ to enable those living with dementia to reconnect with old memories has won a well respected UK-wide award for the quality of its care.

(from left to right) Professor Susan Roaf, Heriot-Watt University; Scott Kirkpatrick, Kingdom Housing Association; Dr. Craig Murphy, Mitsubishi Electric R&D; Dr. Atsushi Miyoshi, Manager, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan; Yumie Tanaka, Researcher, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan; Toshiya Yoshid