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A consortium of eight housing associations operating across Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire has appointed an initial 40 local contractors to its new dynamic purchasing system (DPS) for responsive repairs and voids, developed in partnership with PfH Scotland.

As Langstane Housing Association celebrates Scottish Housing Day, Judith Sutherland charts her journey from housing administration to director of housing, while Robyn Henry explains how she made the jump from leaving school to starting her career in housing. Judith Sutherland

From trainee to director of customer experience, Tracey Howatt looks back on a career spanning almost four decades as part of Scottish Housing Day celebrations. Beginning her career with Bield at the age of 17, Tracey has amassed an impressive 37 years with the housing and care provider.

With Scottish Housing Day 2023 celebrating housing as a career today, SHARE has marked the day by launching a network designed to help those at the start of their housing careers. The Young Housing Professionals Network is a new and exciting project, open to anyone with less than ten years’ ex

The importance of housing as a career is the focus of this year’s Scottish Housing Day which takes place today.

Octopus Real Estate has provided a loan of £6.4 million to finance the ground-up development of 14 new homes in North Berwick.

Disability charity Capability Scotland, which has ambitious plans to create a flagship £28 million complex-needs facility, has signed an exclusivity agreement for land at Bertha Park Village, delivered by home builder Springfield. The agreement sets out a joint responsibility to negotiate a de

Arlene Robertson has taken up the senior role of people and culture manager at Thenue Housing. Welcoming Arlene to her new post, Thenue chief executive Gary Naylor said Arlene would bring “exceptional skills to the role” and would undoubtedly make a difference to the work of th

Jim Whiston, Ayrshire Housing’s long-serving director, is to retire in December. Mr Whiston has led the association since it was formed through a merger in 2003.

Scotland’s tourism industry faces destruction unless ministers listen to businesses and pause the introduction of a “catastrophic” new short-term lets (STL) licensing system, the First Minister has been warned.

Housing minister Paul McLennan has hailed the Scottish Government's work to deliver affordable homes in the face of external challenges after new figures revealed that annual completions were the highest in 23 years. Quarterly statistics on the Affordable Housing Supply programme show there were a t

Environmental charity Changeworks has achieved its biggest impact to date in reducing carbon emissions and helping people in need of energy advice, a new report has revealed. In the context of the accelerating climate emergency and energy crisis, Changeworks’ goal to decarbonise Scotland&rsquo

The Cunninghame Group of Companies has been accredited as a Living Wage employer. The Living Wage commitment will see everyone working at Cunninghame Housing Association (CHA); Cunninghame Furniture Recycling Company (CFRC) & Citrus Energy receive a minimum hourly wage of £10.90 per hour.

AC Land Regeneration has submitted a “hybrid” planning application to West Lothian Council to fill in the existing quarry and build 650 new homes on land at Lower Bathville, Armadale.

RRH Investments has submitted plans to convert bank offices in Edinburgh into serviced apartments.