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Dundee City Council has been urged to declare a housing emergency and face the reality of rising homelessness throughout the city. The city rejected the chance to make a declaration on two separate occasions in 2024, the first coming just days before the Scottish Government declared a nationwide hou

Scotland’s housing bodies have given a broadly positive but pointedly pragmatic response to the First Minister’s plan to create More Homes Scotland, a new national housing agency intended to accelerate delivery across all tenures.

More than £4 billion of public investment will support the delivery of 36,000 additional affordable homes over the next four years, finance secretary Shona Robison confirmed as she delivered the Scottish Government’s final budget before May’s election. Unveiling the 2026/27 spendin

A jaw-dropping 3D billboard has burst onto the streets of Glasgow with an unmissable message for Scotland’s party leaders: Enough promises. Build more social homes.

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has called for urgent action to arrest a collapse in housebuilding after figures showed the lowest number of social homes beginning construction on record.  

This Christmas, Shelter Scotland will receive twice as many calls to its helpline from people urgently seeking temporary accommodation than any other issue (38%).   Samuel* phoned Shelter Scotland in June after receiving a notice to quit while in temporary accommodation and his homelessness app

The Scottish Government has pledged to intensify efforts to tackle homelessness as it unveiled its latest Ending Homelessness Together annual report to Parliament.

Systemic racism in Scotland’s housing system is causing Black People and People of Colour (BPoC) to be one of the groups disproportionately affected by the country's housing emergency, a stark new report has found.

The City of Edinburgh Council is to consider extending the suspension of its housing lettings policy until March 2027.

Three leading housing organisations have called for a meeting with cabinet secretary for finance and local government Shona Robison ahead of the Scottish Budget to press the need for affordable housing investment. Following landmark research on affordable housing need, Shelter Scotland, CIH Scotland

Shelter Scotland has launched a new plan that details the actions that all parties need to prioritise after the 2026 Scottish election by revealing the extent of public demand for Scotland’s politicians to do more to tackle the housing emergency. New research by YouGov commissioned by the char

Scotland must deliver a minimum of 15,693 affordable homes a year in the next Parliament – a total of 78,465 over five years – with at least half of them needed in the east, according to a major new report published today.

A record-breaking 2,066 empty homes were brought back into use in 2024-25, a new report published today by the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP) has revealed.

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has called for long-term funding for the housing budget after new research revealed Scotland needs to build over 15,000 homes per year to meet housing need.

New social tenancies can generate a value of £11,639, a new three-year study commissioned by Shelter Scotland has found. The study, published today, was led by Housing Associations’ Charitable Trust (HACT), which worked with tenants and social housing providers over three years to measur