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Albyn Housing Society CEO Kirsty Morrison highlights the importance of having enough homes important it is to ensure there are enough homes should the proposed Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green Freeport and other initiatives in the Highlands are going to be successful. It has now been over six mont

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Mel Esquerre, an Edinburgh resident and retrofit campaigner, shares her experience of the City of Edinburgh Council's Mixed Tenure Improvement Service (MTIS) scheme and her concerns that people are being harmed as a result. In the last month alone, five different neighbours have approached me, anxio

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One year after the City of Edinburgh Council began implementing Scotland’s short-term let rules, Airbnb says its new analysis shows the licensing scheme has failed to have any impact on the affordable housing crisis in Edinburgh. 

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Accountant Stuart Beattie shares what housing associations can do to limit the impact of current challenges and calls for greater government support to help organisations meet their obligations. Earlier this month I attended the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) Finance Conference,

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Jill Pritchard, an occupational therapist and workplace and business change consultant, highlights the transformational impact of housing solutions in helping people to live independently. The role of occupational therapists working in the community is a critical one and covers a wide range of inter

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The Salvation Army's Helen Murdoch looks back over the recent Annual Homelessness Conference which served as a reminder of the benefits of collaboration when tackling homelessness. The arrival of winter weather this week is a chilling reminder that far too many people in Scotland are housed in unsui

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Councillor James Dalgleish, planning convener at the City of Edinburgh Council, writes about a bold and ambitious plan agreed last week by councillors to make better use of land in the capital. Edinburgh’s population is growing fast and so a major highlight of City Plan 2030 is setting aside e

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Muir Group executive chairman John Muir argues that the recent cut to interest rates is a welcome boost for Scotland's housebuilders. It is no surprise that the Bank of England’s decision to cut interest rates will have been welcomed by homebuilders up and down the country. With it comes more

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Thomas & Adamson's Greig Fenton highlights the critical role of Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) in the journey towards net zero for housing stock. The journey to net zero can seem a large, ominous, and expensive undertaking for housing providers. Some 2.9 million homes are owned by housin

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At a time of housing emergencies across the country, Scottish structural engineer Alan Ferns argues that demolishing RAAC-affected homes is not the only answer. It sometimes feels that, in the opaque realm of official decision-making, the temptation to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut is just too h

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