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Lord Freud The UK government’s cap on Local Housing Allowance (LHA) has been delayed for another 12 months for general needs accommodation but will now apply to all tenants who receive Universal Credit when it is introduced in 2019.

The £250 million Aberdeen City Region Deal agreement was officially signed yesterday, paving the way for investment in housing and better connectivity across the region. The terms of the deal commit both the UK government and Scottish Government to jointly investing up to £250m whilst Aberdeen Cit

Work has started on a new council housing development being built on the former Lammermuir office block site in the centre of Livingston. A total of 44 new homes, including a mix of cottage flats, houses and wheelchair accessible bungalows, are being developed with completion scheduled for the end o

Stirling Council has agreed a plan to provide over 400 more affordable homes over the next five years. Members of the local authority’s environment & housing committee approved the submission of the Strategic Housing Investment Plan for 2017/18 to 2021/22 to the Scottish Government.

Gavin Barwell Plans to make higher earning tenants living in social housing in England pay a higher level of rent to continue living there have been scrapped by the UK government.

Anna Evans Housing consultant Anna Evans outlines what can be learned by the work of housing associations in the mid market rent sector.

LinkLiving staff with the two awards LinkLiving Ltd is celebrating after it won two awards at the Scottish Mentoring Awards ceremony last week.

River Clyde Homes has underlined its commitment to affordable rents by proposing that the rent charge increases next year be restricted to the rate of inflation and is asking customers if they support the plans. Back in 2014 a majority of customers who responded to a consultation agreed with proposa

Alison Notman Scottish Borders Housing Association’s tenant participation manager was named a Tenants’ Champion at the weekend’s annual Tenant Participation Advisory Service (TPAS) Scotland Conference Awards.

Progress at the Alva development Link Group Ltd and Tigh Grian Ltd are holding an open day at their site in Queen Street, Alva.

Douglas McLeod Housebuilder Barratt Developments has delivered a £319 million boost to the UK economy over the past year, according to a new report from the firm.

New figures have revealed Scottish Water's green schemes generated enough power for 11,200 homes last year. With 37GWh of electricity generated, carbon emissions were down 3.5 per cent compared to the previous year, and 16 per cent overall since 2006/07.

A new study has revealed that almost half (49 per cent) of people in Scotland admit to being in debt with many of these feeling the strain, just weeks before Christmas. The YouGov poll, which was commissioned by Scotcash and Scotwest Credit Union, revealed almost 1 in 2 (49 per cent) of adults surve

Derek McGowan Aberdeen City Council has announced that Derek McGowan has been appointed as the new head of communities and housing at the local authority.

Local authorities is Scotland have spent more than £750 million on temporary accommodation for homeless families in the last five years, according to new statistics. The data was obtained by the BBC as part of a wider investigation which found that the amount spent on temporary accommodation by cou