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Four housing projects worth a total of £37.7 million have been awarded through Scotland Excel’s new build framework. Loreburn Housing Association in Dumfries has awarded two major projects to Ashleigh (Scotland) Ltd - a £4.8m project to build 27 homes in Annan and a £14.8m pr

Building on a successful culture change programme that has supported service improvements and resulted in Gold Investors in People and Gold Investors in Young People accreditation, Kingdom Housing Association (KHA) has completed staff training cementing its organisational values into the founda

Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) has unveiled a special ‘Breathing Space’ bench at its new development in Springfield, Duns.

Details of how £11.6 billion of funding from the Scottish Government will be distributed to individual local authorities in 2021-22 have been published. The settlement provides councils with an increase in day to day revenue spending of £335.6 million, including £90 million to comp

Street Soccer Scotland has secured the rights to transform the Lynch Centre in Dundee, with a focus on community and wellbeing at its heart.

Historic Dundee tenement blocks at the centre of a much-criticised decision process in 2017 are now set to be demolished. The 26 properties which make up 219-245 Blackness Road, 16 of which are council flats, were originally built in the 1890s during the city’s heyday as a jute giant.

The Scottish Government is set to scrap the Help to Buy scheme from this week after announcing it is no longer able to financially support the initiative.

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has cautiously welcomed the funding announced for affordable housing in last week’s Scottish Budget, adding that sustaining it throughout the duration of the next parliament should deliver the homes Scotland needs. The SFHA said the govern

Regeneration work to convert a disused former power loom weaving mill in Arbroath into 24 affordable apartments is now complete, with the keys ready to be handed over to the first group of tenants.

Kingdom Housing Association has started work on 76 new affordable homes for social rent and mid market rent at Kingdom Park in Kirkcaldy.

Tenants of Kendoon Housing Association will today transfer to be tenants of Pineview Housing Association Ltd following a period of tenant consultation, positive tenant voting and shareholder approval. Tenant voting took place in November 2020 with 88.5% of tenants choosing 'Yes' to transfer. Managem

A leading surveyor has claimed that he is detecting serious safety defects on new housing estates in Scotland every week due to gaps within timber battens in cavity walls and poor workmanship. Greig Adams, founder of Adams Building Consultancy, said the breach in building standards means t

Crumbling bricks, broken windows and overgrown gardens of empty homes across Scotland could be a visual legacy of the economic crisis caused by the COVID pandemic if action is not taken to bring more properties back in to use, according to the leader of a project working with local authorities acros

In response to Grampian Housing Association’s concern about colleague wellbeing and resilience in the face of the enduring global pandemic, new wellbeing days are being offered to staff through its “Feeling GREAT” initiative. Wellbeing days are part of a range of measures the Assoc

Crisis, as part of the Everyone Home collective, is compiling a practical prevention compendium, bringing together in one place the best examples of what works to prevent homelessness in Scotland. Read on to find out how you can contribute…