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People struggling to make rent payments are continuing to benefit from support funding from North Lanarkshire Council. The targeted support is available to council tenants who find themselves falling into rent arrears due to waiting times for Universal Credit payments and those who have seen their i

The Highland Council has given Glen Homes (Scotland) Ltd retrospective planning permission for eight new homes at The Maltings in Muir of Ord. The permission comes despite objections from neighbours over the height of the buildings, with many saying they were too tall.

Thirty organisations in Scotland that care about homelessness, including charities, leading academics and people with lived experience, are today calling on political parties, MSPs and candidates in next year’s Scottish Parliament elections to get behind a ten-year plan to end homelessness. As

Elderpark Housing has moved into its new home in Govan after a stunning transformation of a 19th century former school. The Association has taken delivery of the restored and hugely-admired Hills Trust Primary School which holds a prominent place in the centre of Govan.

How landlords ensure that they are meeting their duties to keep tenants and residents safe and continue to do so during the COVID-19 pandemic is a key area of focus for the Scottish Housing Regulator in its annual risk assessment.

A £42.6 million project to transform a former meat market into 252 flats for mid-market rent has received grant approval via Glasgow City Council’s affordable housing supply programme.

Argyll and Bute Council has approved a new housing strategy that sets out plans to build over 900 affordable homes over the next five years.

Gas network company SGN has received approval to build a world-first 100% green hydrogen-to-homes demonstration network in Fife.

Springfield Properties has been granted planning consent for 64 new homes in Heathhall, Dumfries. 

Kingdom Housing Association and its contractor Campion Homes have made a joint donation of £1,000 to Alloa charity The Gate for the purchase of foodbank supplies to support local families in need this Christmas. Kingdom is working in partnership with Clackmannanshire Council and Camp

Blochairn Housing Association has announced that every tenant will receive its £75 Christmas bonus.  In 2001, the Association became the first housing organisation in Glasgow to provide a tenant bonus, which is designed to acknowledge the contribution made by tenants who pay their rent, l

Funding to help people pay for food, heating, warm clothing and shelter during the winter is part of a new £100 million support package. The fund will help those on low incomes, children and people at risk of homelessness or social isolation cope with winter weather and the economic impact of

Plans to purchase a 55-acre site in Lochinver for the provision of affordable housing is among a number of projects across Scotland have received £3.6 million of funding in the latest round of grants from the Scottish Land Fund. The money will allow groups from both urban and rural areas

A new state-of-the-art training college is set to be constructed by City Building to meet the future demands of its craft apprenticeship programme and continuous upskilling of its workforce.

Councillors on the City of Edinburgh Council's planning committee are being asked to consider a revised timetable for a radical plan to build a more sustainable future as the capital grows in the coming years.