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Health secretary Jeane Freeman has announced plans for a significant expansion in testing for hospital patients, health and social care staff, and communities in Level 4 areas. From next week, all emergency admissions will be tested for COVID, and twice-weekly lateral flow testing will be introduced

Over the last four years many services provided by the City of Edinburgh Council have improved, its finances have been well-managed and ambitious strategies to improve the lives of local people and the economy have been agreed.

From tomorrow people will be able to see available properties on Angus Council’s new Angus Homefinder website and be able to bid for the home they want. Going live and making properties available for prospective tenants to bid on is the last stage of the council’s move to Choice Based Le

Community groups are being invited to bid for up to £5,000 to help transform their local area as part of the West Dunbartonshire Council's Community Budgeting initiative.  Community Budgeting is designed to increase local participation and decision making and as the fifth phase launches,

This week’s European current affairs programme Eòrpa on BBC ALBA asks if young Hebrideans are being priced out from staying or moving to the Western Isles. COVID-19 has seen a rise in house buyers seeking a lifestyle change, with the ability to work remotely, there has been an increase

Community Land Scotland (CLS) has called for new powers to control sales of large estates and to break up landowning monopolies in its new manifesto for a sustainable Scotland. The organisation has urged that vasts tracts of Scottish land have been bought and sold as the playthings of the rich, with

People's Energy, the Edinburgh-based energy provider and social enterprise, has reached the milestone of supplying 250,000 customers. The company, which was founded in 2017, has grown by over 300% in the last year alone, and aims to service a million homes with gas and electricity by 2024. This foll

An overwhelming 95.5% of Cloch tenants who took part in a ballot have voted to to separate from Oak Tree Housing Association and restore its status as an independent housing association. After a summer long consultation, heavily restricted by the pandemic and subsequent lockdown, Cloch&rsq

The Scottish Housing Regulator has today published updated advisory guidance for RSL governing bodies during COVID-19. The updates take into account changes introduced by recent legislation, including extended timescales for RSLs to hold virtual Annual General Meetings and Special General Meeti

Investment proposals that would see over 3,800 new affordable houses built in Fife before 2026 were discussed by Fife councillors yesterday. Fife Council's Strategic Housing Investment Programme (SHIP) will now be submitted to the Scottish Government in a bid for funding to help subsidise the total

A new £6.5 million development of affordable homes has been delivered in Govanhill.

Work is progressing on Clyde Valley Housing Association's (CVHA) conversion of a historic Airdrie church into new flats for social rent.

The in-house welfare rights team at West of Scotland Housing Association (WSHA) has helped secure a £22k welfare benefits backdate for one of its tenants. On starting his new tenancy with WSHA, the welfare rights team initially provided Hamish McGregor support to apply for Universal

Sanctuary Homes’ transformation of Newfield Square in Glasgow has been named best regeneration development at the TIS National Excellence Awards.

Langstane Housing Association has outlined how it will make use of funding it has received through the Scottish Government’s Homelessness Prevention Fund. Administered by the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA), the £1.5 million fund to support projects that contribut