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See all articlesPersimmon West Scotland has promoted Craig Watson to operations director. Craig brings over 22 years of experience with the business, having joined in 2003 and progressing through key technical roles including design manager, technical manager, and most recently, technical director.
91BC Property Factors has announced a new team structure following a company-wide review, aimed at improving the way it delivers property management services to customers across Scotland.
Riverside has appointed three sector leaders to its group board, including a new vice chair. Joining the board are Maggie Porteous, Richard Petty, and Angela Lockwood OBE – each bringing extensive experience across housing, governance, and customer service to further strengthen the board&rsquo
Homeless Network Scotland has appointed Alex MacEachin as treasurer to the board. Chartered accountant Alex trained and practised at multinational giant BDO and has extensive experience in property and construction finance. He joins HNS from real estate investment firm LXi REIT where he was finance
ECD Architects has announced two new senior hires and a leadership promotion, as it continues to meet growing demand for energy efficient, Passivhaus certified buildings in the housing, education and public sectors. Alistair Cameron has been promoted to joint managing director, with specific respons
Opinion
See all articlesThis year's Scottish Housing Day is an opportunity for RSLs to reinforce the importance of building better communities, says Craig Stirrat, chief executive officer at Grampian Housing Association. This year’s Scottish Housing Day takes place on 17th September 2025 and aims to encourage a
Hot on the heels of announcing a strategic shift for Akela Construction, managing director Robert Ogg reveals how the firm's new priorities align with the wider challenges facing the construction sector. Across Scotland, infrastructure is under strain. Whether it's housing delivery, transport networ
In this new blog for Scottish Housing Day 2025, Julie-Ann Cloherty, learning and development officer at Share, reflects on the skills required by those working in the social housing sector to build and sustain successful neighbourhoods and communities.
Scotland’s residential property market has long defied simple categorisation. Unlike other parts of the UK, it is best understood not as a single entity but as a collection of distinct micro-markets, each shaped by its own local dynamics, economic undercurrents, and buyer sentiment, says John
Housing Champions
See all articlesSHN's Housing Champions feature returns with Lorna Cameron, chief executive of Horizon Housing, who speaks to Margaret Taylor about the inextricable link between accessible housing and social care. It is almost 35 years since Lorna Cameron started her career at what was Strathclyde Regiona
Jimmy Black relives a few housing decades with Laurie Naumann, a campaigner on single homelessness, and a founder of Kingdom Housing Association. This is a story about Laurie Naumann, who recently retired after 44 years as a board member at Kingdom Housing Association. But it’s also a step bac

Jimmy Black cycled to Stornoway to meet Calum (Barney) MacKay, chair of TPAS Scotland and long-standing tenant activist. Barney is a trade unionist, and that explains a lot. Trades unions teach their active members how to do many useful things, including basic skills, like how to run a meeting or th

Jimmy Black meets the energetic Evie Copland, multi-award-winner and housing evangelist. “The biggest problem is … how do I change the world with this?” Evie Copland is finishing her Master's in Housing Studies, and she has been a distinguished student. In 2021 she won the Malcolm

Jimmy Black meets Bill Banks, retiring CEO of the multi award-winning Kingdom Group. Bill Banks looks relaxed, calm and entirely at home in his relatively modest office at Kingdom Housing Association. He’s a man at the height of his powers with a very solid track record of achievement. But Bil

Scottish Housing News Podcast
See all articlesFor this episode of the Scottish Housing News Podcast, Kieran Findlay and Jimmy Black discuss the pressing issues of damp and mould in housing, focusing on the new Awaab’s Law legislation that mandates social landlords to address health hazards within strict timelines. Kerry Brown, co-founder
Below is a full transcript of episode 71 of the Scottish Housing News Podcast titled ‘Damp, mould and tenant behaviour with Kerry Brown and Patrick McRedmond'. Listen to the episode here.
In this episode of the Scottish Housing News Podcast, hosts Kieran Findlay and Jimmy Black discuss the complexities of retrofitting tenement buildings in Scotland with experts Josiah Lockhart, Mike Heffron and Chris Carus. They explore the unique challenges posed by the ownership structures of tenem
In this episode of the Scottish Housing News Podcast, Professor Duncan McLennan discusses the complexities of the Scottish housing system, addressing the notion of a housing emergency, the implications of the right to buy policy, and the urgent need for increased social housing. Speaking with hosts
Below is a full transcript of episode 69 of the Scottish Housing News Podcast titled ‘A conversation with Professor Duncan Maclennan’. Listen to the episode here.
Black's Blog
See all articlesJimmy Black says knowing what causes condensation is the key to fixing it.
Retrofitting tenements was the subject of the latest SHN podcast with guests from Changeworks, Loco Home and Under One Roof. Jimmy Black yearns for heat networks, not heat pumps... “With tenements, it’s every single problem around net zero and climate change all rolled into one building.

Jimmy Black asks Duncan Maclennan about the Right to Buy for housing associations.

Jimmy Black reflects on the Heat in Buildings Bill, and laments the loss of Patrick Harvie’s radical edge.

Our Housing Heritage
See all articlesTo mark International Women’s Day, SHN revives its Our Housing Heritage feature to celebrate the enduring legacy of Margaret Blackwood. As a pioneering force in both the disability rights movement and the housing sector, Blackwood’s remarkable contributions transformed accessible housing
For the next edition of Our Housing Heritage, journalist and digital history specialist Chris Holme shares the story of how First World War servicemen came to reside in the rural village of Longniddry. Unlikely as it sounds, the Longniddry Piggery provided Britain’s first purpose-built homes f

In the latest article in the ongoing Our Housing Heritage series, Scottish Housing News discusses the Glasgow Rent Strikes of 1915. In the absence of social housing, families across the UK in 1915 were at the mercy of private landlords who could hike rents and evict tenants at will with little restr
The Springburn office of ng homes is named after Ned Donaldson. But who was Ned Donaldson? Kieran Findlay recalls the contribution of the activist and the post-war battle to stop the privatisation of council housing at Merrylee. It was a cold sleety December day in 1951. Slum landlordism and sublett

Duncan Smith, who works in the social housing sector, has contributed this piece as part of his quest for more information about housing architect George Gibson. Several years ago, just after starting my current job, I undertook some research on the properties we were refurbishing at the time. I fou
Fuel Poverty
See all articlesMore households across Scotland are receiving urgent support with their energy costs through the Scarf Fuel Fund, which offers energy vouchers to people at risk of running out of credit on their prepayment meters. The fund, which has already delivered over £400,000 of support to households in
Warmworks has been appointed to deliver a home energy efficiency scheme on behalf of Shetland Islands Council following a successful bidding process. The Energy Efficient Scotland: Area-Based Scheme, which is funded through the Scottish Government, will offer energy efficiency and home insulation me
Retrofitting specialists Procast Group has secured a pot of £8.4 million in funding to deliver energy-efficient retrofit upgrades to social housing across Scotland and the north of England. This funding through Net Zero Fund Management (NZFM) represents a major opportunity to accelerate upgrad
Scottish households are being urged to submit meter readings to their energy supplier as the newly lowered Ofgem price cap comes into force. Advice Direct Scotland, which runs the national energy advice service energyadvice.scot, is reminding consumers to act before midnight on 30 June to avoid bein
Scotland’s First Minister, John Swinney MSP, has hailed the “remarkable” efforts made by Warmworks in tackling fuel poverty, at a reception marking the organisation’s tenth anniversary. Warmworks was established in 2015 as a joint venture partnership between Energy Saving Tru
Homelessness
See all articlesHomeless Network Scotland has appointed Alex MacEachin as treasurer to the board. Chartered accountant Alex trained and practised at multinational giant BDO and has extensive experience in property and construction finance. He joins HNS from real estate investment firm LXi REIT where he was finance
A petition by an asylum seeker who challenged a decision of a local authority to treat him as an adult when refusing his application for accommodation has been refused by a Lord Ordinary after he found that the council had followed appropriate procedure in carrying out an age assessment.

Glasgow City Council has been faced with hundreds of threats of legal action each month from charities and solicitors over its legal duties to the homeless.
Falkirk Council sees reduction in children in temporary accommodation as more homes brought into use
The number of children living in temporary accommodation has fallen across the Falkirk Council area over the past year. Figures published in a recent update show that the number of children in temporary accommodation fell from 263 at the end of March 2024 to 197 by the end of March 2025.
A significant investment has been agreed to help tackle homelessness in South Lanarkshire. The project will turn a vacant building in Hamilton into 15 temporary ‘First Stop’ housing units, meaning fewer people will be put up in expensive and unsuitable bed and breakfast accommodation.
PRS
See all articlesScottish Green MSP Ross Greer has unveiled plans to introduce a new tax on holiday homes and short-term lets in Gaelic-speaking areas, with the aim of addressing the rural housing crisis and protecting the Gaelic language.
91BC Property Factors has announced a new team structure following a company-wide review, aimed at improving the way it delivers property management services to customers across Scotland.
The Scottish Government’s consultation on the Housing (Scotland) Bill will close today, bringing to an end a heated debate over proposed rent control measures and potential exemptions that have sharply divided landlords and tenants' groups.
The Scottish housing secretary’s proposed Autumn plan must include maintaining and promoting investment in the private rented sector (PRS), according to property firm DJ Alexander Ltd. The lettings and estate agency said that the announcement by housing secretary Màiri McAllan that she
Residential letting agent Dwello has secured a new 200-property portfolio under management.
Welfare
See all articlesSocial justice secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville has confirmed that the Scottish Government will introduce a new payment to effectively nullify the UK Government’s two-child benefit limit in Scotland. The Two Child Limit Payment will open for applications from 2 March 2026.
New figures released this week have revealed that 326,255 children are actively benefiting from the Scottish Child Payment across the country. The Scottish Child Payment is unique to Scotland and provides financial support for families, helping with the costs of caring for a child. It is a monthly p
The number of applications for Discretionary Housing Payments has risen to 129,860 from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, a 4.5% increase from the previous year, according to new figures from the Scottish Government.
Households in the Inverness Area have benefited significantly from Welfare Advice received by Highland Council officers when applying for the Inverness Winter Payment Scheme. Leader of Inverness and Area, Councillor Ian Brown, explained: “Councillors have agreed to continue the Inverness Commo
Hillcrest has helped tenants unlock a remarkable £502,740 in financial gains through a targeted campaign to increase the take-up of Pension Credit, support many tenants were unaware they were entitled to. The campaign was delivered by Hillcrest’s Financial Wellbeing Team (FWT) and Hillcr