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Cllr Andrew Burns Satisfaction with Edinburgh as a city to live in is the highest it's ever been, the City of Edinburgh Council’s annual residents’ survey has shown.

The planning moratorium on new Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) in St Andrews town centre will continue until June 2017 because Fife Council officers have still not fully assessed its impact. Student newspaper The Saint reports that the HMO ban was first introduced in 2011, with a review expected

Hillcrest has today been announced as a finalist in the supporting organisation category of the Homes for Scotland Awards. The award is in recognition of the competitive edge they have which attracts private developers and house builders to work with them. When the housing need has never been greate

Pictured from left to right: Gregor Booth, Operations Director; Tanya Domingo, Customer Services Assistant; Lenore Suddon, Housing Services Manager; Stephanie Bell (WorldHost Trainer – Borders College); David Allen (Director of Scotland – People 1st); Margaret Ross, Chief Executive; Craig Matear

Scottish law firm Burness Paull has announced it is the official sponsor of Team Scotland at this year’s Homeless World Cup.

The site of a £6 million affordable housing project in Perth saw a break-in over the weekend, but nothing of value was taken. Opportunistic thieves are thought to be behind the break-in at the old Caledonian Road primary school, the site of a Caledonia Housing Association project to build 49 afford

Henry Coyle Eildon Housing Association has bid farewell to its vice chairman Henry Coyle, who has resigned from the Board after seventeen years of dedicated voluntary service.

Residents at a sheltered housing complex in the Borders were today presented with gifts for the garden at a lunch to celebrate a major anniversary in the history of the site.

A planning application has been submitted for the construction of 15 new affordable homes on an unused site in Bridge of Don. According to the Press and Journal, developers Carlton Rock have lodged papers with Aberdeen City Council following discussions with Grampian Housing Association.

DGHP’s Joanne Quigley pictured with the pupils of primary 5/6 from Gretna Primary School Dumfries and Galloway Housing Partnership (DGHP) have been supporting a local primary school's bid to get their pupils reading.

Thenue Housing Association and Thistle Housing Association teamed up to deliver a course for long-term unemployed people in Toryglen.

CAS housing spokesman Patrick Hogan Over 6,000 people - an increase of 23 per cent over the past two years - contacted Citizens Advice Scotland in 2015 to report problems with their landlords and with poor housing in the private rented sector.

Bellsmyre Housing Association has been formally welcomed into Caledonia Housing Association Group as of 1 April 2016 following the overwhelming approval of its tenants last year.

An Edinburgh-based charity which assists older and disabled people to continue to live safely at home in the Capital is calling for people to dig out their toolboxes and donate any tools they no longer use.

New Scottish Government figures show local authorities received 7,600 applications for homelessness assistance during October-December 2015, around 5 per cent lower than in the same period in 2014. However, the number of children living in temporary accommodation rose by 13 per cent to 4,876 as of 3