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Kingdom Housing Association’s Tenancy Sustainment Team has delivered £50,000 worth of direct financial support to customers with fuel debts, providing a financial lifeline during the cost of living crisis.

The Highland Council has paid tribute to Councillor Alasdair Rhind who passed suddenly on 4 April 2024. During his current term of service, Alasdair was a member of the Corporate Resources Committee, Black Isle and Easter Ross Area Committee, Economy and Infrastructure Committee, Housing and Propert

Fife Council has launched a new Property Flood Resilience (PFR) grant scheme to support private homes and businesses affected by flooding.

The Scottish Government has announced that it will be easing permitted development rights (PDRs) for rooftop solar.

Work is underway on the development of a new £20 million care home in the Pitfodels area of Aberdeen, ready to open in autumn/winter 2025.

The Scottish Housing News Charity Spotlight feature highlights the vital work of charities across Scotland each Friday. To include your local charity, whether housing-related or not, send your story and images to us at newsdesk@scottishnews.com.

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has confirmed the completion and handover of 37 affordable homes and apartments for social rent to East Lothian Council.

Legendary Easterhouse anti-poverty campaigner Cathy McCormack has been commemorated with a new £10,000 fund aimed at building local communities. The Cathy McCormack Community Activism Fund was launched this week by Glasgow Community Energy, with the aim of supporting local groups to deliver pr

Tenants in Dalmuir are to get a new seating area and extra whirly gigs following a vote around how to spend almost £3000 in their area.

The Ripple Refillery, created by the The Ripple Project, is a sustainability initiative which aims to give people access to good quality and low-cost food with minimal waste. It is the first community run refillery to open in north east Edinburgh.

Scottish Opera has fleshed out its proposals for a major mixed-use transformation of its current New Rotterdam Wharf site in Glasgow, including multi-storey student accommodation blocks.

A taskforce created to identify and propose solutions to barriers to investing in homes met for the first time yesterday. The first Housing Investment Taskforce meeting was held in London and attended by housing minister Paul McLennan and various stakeholders from housing and finance.

A construction director has warned that building firms may be put off taking on social housing projects after he attributed his company's £3.5 million pre-tax loss to two fixed-price contracts. Perthshire-based Algo signed fixed-price deals to build social housing projects in Kirkcaldy an

West of Scotland Housing Association (WSHA) has acquired a Grade B listed former office building in Glasgow city centre for a multi-million-pound conversion to mid-market rent housing.

Early compensation figures for the forced installation of prepayment meters are a "drop in the ocean" compared to the scale of the problem, a charity has said. Figures from Ofgem today reveal that 1,502 customers have received compensation, totalling £342,450. Suppliers are planning more payme