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Cunninghame Housing Association (CHA) has announced the appointment of Jacqueline Cameron as its new group chief executive officer. Jacqueline, who has served as the Association’s executive director of housing and property services since January 2022, brings a wealth of experience and a proven

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Blackwood Housing and Care is set to embark on a new strategic journey, after announcing Jason MacGilp as its incoming chief executive. The leadership transition comes as Simon Fitzpatrick departs after a two-year tenure. He will be taking on the role of chief executive at the West of Scotland Housi

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West of Scotland Housing Association (WSHA) has appointed Simon Fitzpatrick as its next chief executive officer. Currently chief executive of Blackwood Homes and Care, Simon was an outstanding candidate in a particularly strong shortlist. He will be taking over the chief executive role at WSHA from

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Jane Meagher has been named as the new leader of the City of Edinburgh Council. The former Housing, Homelessness and Fair Work convener was appointed by her fellow councillors following the resignation of Cammy Day as leader on Monday 9 December.

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Professor Ken Gibb, director of the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE), reflects on the previous 12 months.  The year 2024 was one of elections and government change around the world and in the UK. It also saw riots in the summer, more extreme weather, continuing wars, and the

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Marcus Di Rollo, lettings director at Gilson Gray, has outlined six key themes that will shape Scotland’s property market in the coming year from the continued supply-demand imbalance and recalibrating rents to the evolving debate over short-term lets and eviction processes.  So far, the

Housing Champions

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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

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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

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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

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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

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“If we can get 90% of it right, I'd be delighted if somebody else came up with the other 10% and built on that. That's the history of social housing, right? Standing on the shoulders of giants and keeping getting better and better and better. We're just part of that chain.” Kieran Findla

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“Partnership work is about relationships, it's knowing people, it's understanding each of us have roles and responsibilities but keeping in mind what we're all trying to achieve at the end of the day and that's the outcomes for people that live in our communities to allow them to thrive and su

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Below is a full transcript of episode 62 of the Scottish Housing News Podcast titled ‘Accessible housing (part 3) with Jacquie Pepper and Elaine Ritchie’. Listen to the episode here.

Black's Blog

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Following a conversation with Simon Fitzpatrick for the Scottish Housing News Podcast, Jimmy Black thinks about wheels and lifts, beautiful new Blackwood Homes and folks stuck up thousands of tenement stairs. Wheels. Perhaps architects should have an app which lets them push a virtual pram through e

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Jimmy Black hopes Integrated Joint Boards (IJBs) will find inspiration at the Housing & Social Care Accessibility Summit, after a chat with Hanover Scotland's Angela Currie.

Our Housing Heritage

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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

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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

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Households across parts of North West England and Central Scotland can now get free help to plan home improvements that save money on energy bills and carbon emissions, thanks to a new service, Energywise. People can access free impartial advice, online or over the phone, from a team of experts at t

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Mandating energy suppliers to offer low or no standing charges and better support for households struggling with debt are among planned improvements to the energy market announced by Ofgem yesterday.

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Kamila Feddek, financial wellbeing co-ordinator at Williamsburgh Housing Association (WHA) has been presented with the prestigious Fuel Poverty Hero Award 2024 at the annual Energy Action Scotland Conference. The award is given to someone who has made a significant impact and contribution toward tac

Homelessness

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UHI Inverness students spent seven days working for free to redecorate a charity-owned home in Inverness that will house a new tenant with special care needs. The NPA Painting and Decorating students and their lecturer Jordan Bryceland painted the entire interior of the two-bedroomed house owned by

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Cairn Group has marked a quarter century of building a ‘whole market’ residential property agency across Scotland’s central belt. Within the last year, a series of acquisitions and a comprehensive management restructure with the promotion of its management team to create joint mana

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The annual tenant survey carried out by Edinburgh-based letting agent Clan Gordon has revealed that 97% of its tenants would recommend the firm to others. The letting agent said the result reaffirms its commitment to providing a service that places tenants' needs first.

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Thousands of children from disadvantaged backgrounds will benefit from free breakfasts, thanks to £3 million from the Scottish Government. Announced in the draft Budget for 2025-26, Bright Start Breakfasts will help more primary school children get a healthy start to the day. The initiative wi

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Charities have welcomed the Scottish Government’s decision to reinstate an energy support payment for all pensioners, describing the move as a "huge relief" for older people. Social justice secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville confirmed yesterday that on the roll-out of the new benefit next winte

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The Scottish Government’s five family payments have reached a landmark figure since their launch, paying over £1 billion to families across Scotland to help end child poverty, new figures have shown. The latest statistics released from Social Security Scotland reveal that between Februar