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The barriers that people with disabilities face getting support and exiting homelessness, including difficulty getting a diagnosis, unsuitable environments, and a shortage of accessible housing, have been highlighted in a new report by the Centre for Homelessness Impact.

Morris & Spottiswood has won four affordable housing projects across the UK as the business bolstered its housing team with a senior appointment and continues to focus on its sustainability offering for clients. The firm has appointed Kevin McCulloch as operations manager to support the ongoing

Members of the Living Rent tenants' union in Lochend are celebrating a commitment from the City of Edinburgh Council to fund an £18 million-per-year area-based retrofitting programme and empty council homes being put back into use.

A housing association in Salford has launched a new fire safety campaign following a serious fire at one of its tower blocks sparked by an e-bike battery.

A bid by Queensberry Properties to overturn a decision to reject its revised plans to deliver 49 apartments in Glasgow’s West End has been successful.

More than 1000 square metres of living ‘green’ roof has been laid on top of Rowanbank Gardens, in Corstorphine, Edinburgh, as Artisan Real Estate continues to set new standards in environmentally sensitive living.

Marchmont family business At Home In Edinburgh has beaten off competition from across the country to be named finalists in the prestigious annual housing industry awards, the Scottish Home Awards. The independent awards programme celebrates success in the Scottish housing and house-building sector,

Green Home Systems has been appointed to deliver energy saving measures to households across North Ayrshire Council as part of a national fuel poverty scheme. The appointment will bring Green Home Systems into partnership with North Ayrshire Council to deliver energy efficiency measures to residents

Kevin Gray, chief executive of Veterans Housing Scotland (VHS), has become a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management. The Fellowship award is aimed at highly experienced leaders and managers who wish to share their knowledge to support the community.

A care home has been fined £20,000 for health and safety failings which led to the death of a vulnerable 90-year-old man.

Cala Homes (West), together with Celeros FT, has reached a significant milestone for its proposed housing development in Cathcart with the submission of a formal planning application that sets out the vision, design, and aesthetic of the site.

Staff and board members of Melville Housing Association have paid tributes to its first-ever share-holding member and pillar of the Midlothian community Mabel Ferguson, who has passed away. Mabel, who lived in the town of Gorebridge, had been a Melville tenant throughout the organisation’s ent

Proposals have been unveiled to revive plans for 247 new houses in Laurencekirk.

Local charity Cfine has distributed the equivalent of 120,000 meals to 68 community food members across the city as well as providing 300 free memberships for community pantries through the cost of living funding, members of Aberdeen City Council’s Anti-Poverty and Inequality Committee heard t

Activity in Scotland’s housing market slowed through April according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey, however prices are still rising.