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By Tom Youll from Shelter Scotland’s Get advice project So now the dust has settled, the chairs have been stacked, the tables collapsed and the Shelter Scotland Product Forge Hackathon has come to an end. I thought I’d bring you all up to speed with how the weekend went, who the winners were and

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As the iconic Edinburgh Book Festival gets underway today, Shelter Scotland’s bookshop in Stockbridge is launching a week-long event selling vintage and antiquarian books and other reading materials. Among the treasures due to go on sale are an illustrated dictionary in French from the 1930s, the

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Photo courtesy of Shelter Scotland's Flickr page Scotland’s first housing crisis hackathon has been won by a team who created an ‘I Need Help’ button to signpost people facing homelessness or bad housing to the nearest available resources that could help them.

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Antonia Bird This month the Filmhouse in Edinburgh are presenting a season celebrating the work of British director Antonia Bird. The season includes a rare screening of the 1993 film Safe, starring (amongst others) Robert Carlyle as a homeless Scot trying to eke out an existence on the streets of L

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Calls are growing for local and national authorities to intervene into the increasing use of short-term letting sites which many believe are having a negative effect on Scotland’s housing market. According to data by Murray Cox, a New York-based community activist and founder of non-commercial dat

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The right of tenants to buy their council houses in Scotland will finally come to an end this week. The Right to Buy scheme will end at midnight on Sunday, marking the end of a two-year notice period after Scottish MPs voted to abolish it.

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Volunteer Iain Beaton with one of the largest prints donated to Shelter Staff and volunteers at an Inverness charity shop were left stunned after an art haul worth an estimated £2000 was gifted by a local care home.

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Scotland's local authorities have been urged to be more pro-active in tackling the problem of empty homes after a new survey revealed that 75 per cent of Scots think vacant properties are a direct cause of anti-social behaviour. The YouGov survey for the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP) found

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