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A company in Columbia has found a novel use for the husks discarded when coffee is roasted by turning them into building materials.

Ambitious new measures aimed at widening responsibility for homelessness prevention could stop people from losing their homes and make Scotland a world leader in ending homelessness, according to a new report from an independent group of experts.

Glasgow City Council has approved plans by Wheatley Group for 254 homes for a site in Calton.

More than £100 million is to be spent improving housing across South Lanarkshire in the next financial year. The huge investment will see 504 new homes being built as part of the council’s commitment to deliver 1,000 new homes. More than 500 new homes have already been delivered, with fa

Plans for ten new affordable homes in the north-east village of Insch have been approved by Aberdeenshire Council. Developer Drumrossie Land Development Co Ltd applied for permission for the homes on land At South Road in Insch last May. The firm is working alongside Castlehill Housing Association o

The extra £100 million funding announced by the Scottish Government for affordable housing during 2021–2022 has been welcomed by the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA). Announced by finance secretary Kate Forbes this week, the new funding brings t

Wheatley Group has helped tenants access an extra £9.4 million of unclaimed welfare benefits they were due. The group provides a free benefit advice service to ensure all tenants are getting every penny they are entitled to.

Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) is continuing to work in partnership with Abundant Borders to encourage the use of its community gardens in both Duns and Ayton. With the uncertainty over any lifting of restrictions due to Covid-19, it has been impossible to create a month-by-month plan of act

Beginning in late 2019, the Scotland Prevention Review Group has taken forward the work of the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Group (HARSAG) and the subsequent Scottish Government / COSLA Ending Homelessness Together Action Plan, to recommend new legal duties on councils and public bodies to

Glasgow-based construction and manufacturing business CCG (Scotland) Ltd has launched the CCG Net Zero Home, a new housebuilding standard that has been designed to respond to Scotland’s ambitious target of becoming a net zero economy by 2045. The Net Zero Home is created using a combination of

North Lanarkshire Council has marked progress on town centre housing projects in Airdrie and Coatbridge.

Steve Rolfe and Kim McKee (University of Stirling) present an overview of a new research report that they have produced, along with Tom Simcock, Julie Feather and Jenny Hoolachan, which considers what landlords can do to make their tenants feel more at home in the Private Rented Sector (PRS).

Scottish Borders Council has apologised for a data breach after the email addresses of free school meal payment recipients were shared.

Council tenants living in properties in North Lanarkshire which are no longer suitable for their needs are being offered incentives to help them move. The scheme helps people currently under-occupying larger family homes and encourages them to consider moving to smaller properties and therefore free

The cabinet member for housing at Southwark Council has resigned from his post after it emerged that he had not been transparent about a Twitter account that he managed. Cllr Leo Pollak offered residents a full and unqualified apology for the account which, according to the