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A merger between two Dundee companies has seen Clean Close Company become part of Hillcrest Maintenance Services and the Hillcrest Group. With a history of over eight years of working together, the merger will help to safeguard jobs of the 20 people working for Clean Close as well as create new job

Cube housing officer Shari Parris visits tenant Deirdre McLaughlin at her home in Lennoxtown. (Pic Bill Fleming) Cube Housing Association staff are visiting every one of their tenants to find out how to improve services.

The Athletes’ Village in Glasgow is one of nine housing projects competing for the Royal Town Planning Institute’s (RTPI) prestigious planning awards this year. Submitted by Glasgow City Council, the project has involved the regeneration and development of a large area of 32.5 hectares of brownf

The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) is welcoming applications for the 2015/16 Big Energy Saving Network (BESN). The BESN is a £1 million programme to support third sector organisations and community groups deliver help and advice to vulnerable consumers.

Over a quarter (28 per cent) of social housing tenants are missing out on huge savings by using cash to pay for bills, goods and services, rather than direct debit, according to new research. For many low income families paying in cash, this ‘poverty premium’ has been calculated to amount to mor

A total of 69 credit unions, from across Britain and Northern Ireland, are bidding for funding from the Lloyds Banking Group Credit Union Development Fund. Now in its second year, the £4 million fund (£1m per year) is run in partnership with the Credit Union Foundation.

Pictured: Kristen Hubert of the Empty Homes Partnership and Shelter Scotland's Graeme Brown launch the national empty homes helpline The Scottish Empty Homes Partnership has appealed to members of the public to report empty homes in their communities using a free national helpline.

Pictured: Nursing staff gather round a plaque recording Jamie Hepburn's opening of the new Viewpoint facility The Scottish Government minister for sport, health improvement and mental health has opened a new care facility for older people in Edinburgh.

From left to right: Charles Milne, Chairperson with Kingdom, Ahsan Khan, Head of Housing Clackmannanshire Council, Cllr Les Sharp, Council Leader and Convener of the Housing Health and Care Committee, Bill Banks, Chief Executive, Kingdom Work has started on a new affordable housing project created t

Pictured: Rhonda Leith (left) and Helen Moonie in the second row from the front wearing helmets (Photo: Amy Fowler) Ayrshire Housing today announced the start of work on a new £2.5 million housing development in Ayr town centre.

Cllr Owen Thompson, Midlothian Council cabinet member for housing Council house tenants have been invited to speak with Midlothian Council officials at its annual Tenants' Day on Friday 26 June.

Crofters on Great Bernera in the Outer Hebrides are set to own their island after the Scottish Land Fund agreed to put forward £100,000 to complete the purchase. The community buy-out by the Great Bernera Community Development Trust, which was overwhelmingly approved by locals in March, can now go

Pictured: The new app in action River Clyde Homes residents can now report antisocial behaviour, bid for a new home or appeal for advice through an interactive smartphone app.

A new tenant in Scotland is paying 9.2 per cent more on average than a year ago, according to new findings from the HomeLet Rental Index. The average rent in Scotland for new tenancies in the three months to May 2015 was £652 per month, according to the Index, up 2.7 per cent from the three months

Glasgow Sheriff Court Tenants seeking to challenge court rulings granting eviction must have “cogent and compelling reasons” for suggesting that a sheriff’s judgment was wrong.