Scottish Housing Day

From trainee to director of customer experience, Tracey Howatt looks back on a career spanning almost four decades as part of Scottish Housing Day celebrations. Beginning her career with Bield at the age of 17, Tracey has amassed an impressive 37 years with the housing and care provider.

With Scottish Housing Day 2023 celebrating housing as a career today, SHARE has marked the day by launching a network designed to help those at the start of their housing careers. The Young Housing Professionals Network is a new and exciting project, open to anyone with less than ten years’ ex

In this blog for Scottish Housing Day, CIH Scotland’s national director Callum Chomczuk highlights the contribution that Scotland’s housing professionals make to improving the lives of tenants and communities, as well as the ambition to make housing a career of choice. Today we celebrate

The importance of housing as a career is the focus of this year’s Scottish Housing Day which takes place today.

Ahead of Scottish Housing Day, Chris Carroll shares his journey to becoming a co-ordinator - housing policy and strategy at South Ayrshire Council. My housing career started by chance actually. I left school at 18, with reasonable grades but no inclination for Uni or further studies at that tim

Ahead of this year’s Scottish Housing Day, the team at Muirhouse Housing Association have been reflecting on what a career in housing means to them. Ashley Lyon, asset officer

With Scottish Housing Day coming up this week, Grampian Housing Association’s head of people experience Chris Mathieson celebrates housing as a career and outlines Grampian’s learning and development initiatives. This Scottish Housing Day, we want to celebrate the commitment, professiona

Ahead of Scottish Housing Day on September 13, Home in Scotland director Audrey Simpson shares her journey into a career in housing and explains why it’s an exciting sector for both school leavers and those working in other sectors. Career Path

Kieran Sexton, commercial director at AS Homes (Scotland) and Briar Homes Ltd, highlights the importance of embracing work experience in the construction sector. Scottish Housing Day takes place next week, with the theme of "celebrating housing as a career". I have been commercial director at Scotti

In the lead-up to Scottish Housing Day on Wednesday, September 13, Larkfield’s maintenance assistant Rebecca Turner shares why her job motivates her and what attracted her to the housing sector. What motivates you about your job?

In the lead-up to Scottish Housing Day 2023, procurement officer Neve Beaton shares how her career path took her to Wheatley Group and how she is making a difference.

In the lead-up to Scottish Housing Day 2023, Wheatley Group’s Alan Glasgow shares how his career in housing has taken him from a youth trainee at 16 to his latest role as managing director for Wheatley Homes South. From an early age, I knew housing was for me.

Ahead of next month's Scottish Housing Day, Jacqueline Omoniyi from Under One Roof shares her "not straightforward" path to a housing career. I started my career in housing, working for an HMO Licence specialist company in Edinburgh, though my pathway into housing was not straightforward. I was a gr

Ahead of Scottish Housing Day in September, Mhairi Harley, a recent graduate who joined SFHA from Yoker Housing Association, shares her views on housing as a career. Having recently graduated with a degree in Social and Public Policy, I am driven by a sense of social justice and a desire to mak

Scottish Housing Day is back for the eighth year and will take place on Wednesday 13 September 2023.