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The Scottish Government is to establish a fund for private landlords who experience difficulty securing rent as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. Housing minister Kevin Stewart said eligible private landlords who apply to the fund will be offered an interest-free loan with deferred payments.

The Home Office has confirmed that all evictions and terminations of asylum support have been paused for three months.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has called for lenders to offer a temporary payment freeze on loans and credit cards for up to three months for consumers facing financial difficulties as a result of coronavirus. The watchdog has also called for arranged overdrafts up to £500 to be charge

Britain's mortgage lenders have dramatically increased their loan-to-value deposits for house purchases with Halifax and Barclays among those seeking 40% down-payments to fund buyers amid rising expectations of a housing crash. 

Proposed changes to the way public bodies respond to freedom of information requests as part of emergency laws to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic go too far, the Scottish Greens have warned.

Spire View Housing Association has welcomed a £63,040 funding package from the National Lottery to help support its Royston Coronavirus Response project. The Association said the funding will be “absolutely vital” to support vulnerable residents at Spire View, in Royston.

Away from the stockpiling hordes, food bank volunteers are toiling tirelessly to make sure that no one goes hungry during the coronavirus pandemic and Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) is doing its bit to help.

Glasgow-based homeless charity The Halliday Foundation has been subjected to online abuse after it had to suspend its services as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The foundation provides assistance to homeless people in Glasgow but had to suspend its operations following government advice to sl

The COP26 UN climate change conference set to take place in Glasgow in November has been postponed due to COVID-19.

Ailsa Thomson breaks down the Scottish Government's policy to empower communities and ensure people benefit more fairly from Scotland's land. As part of the Scottish Government's policy to empower communities and ensure people benefit more fairly from Scotland's land, on 26 April 2020 the right to b

Two of the UK’s biggest landlord associations have officially merged the announcement of a new chair today. Jodi Berg OBE will head the newly created National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA) formed by the merger of the National Landlords Association and Residential Landlords Associati

The Scottish Government has confirmed it will invest a further £40 million in Allia C&C’s Scottish Charitable Bond programme for 2020/21, to help continue to deliver its social housing targets. Allia C&C has been supporting the vital development of affordable homes across Scotlan

In his second blog as Scottish Housing News’ temporary special correspondent on homelessness, Homeless Network Scotland’s head of external relations Martin Gavin gives his take on the Emergency Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill. Homelessness is unlikely to be one of the enduring memories of th

Adjustments to the law on evictions to protect those renting their homes in the private and social sector have been welcomed by the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) while the Scottish Greens said they will attempt to strengthen the evictions ban even further. Introduced to the Scot

Kingdom Housing Association has received a donation of almost £4.9 million from the Scottish Government through the Scottish Charitable Bond programme managed by Allia C&C for the development of 60 homes for social rent at Primrose Street, Alloa.