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With elections in Scotland and Wales approaching in 2026, Professor Ken Gibb outlines pressing housing issues and opportunities for policy reform in the first in a new regular series of blogs about housing.

Scottish Housing News is now on Bluesky, the social media platform which has gained millions of new users in the past few weeks.

Housing consultant and former Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of Housing Associations (GWSF) director Jim Harvey has passed away. After a spell as a housing regulator at the Housing Corporation, and then Scottish Homes, Jim served as the GWSF's first director as well as his work as a housing cons

A fundraising campaign has been launched to create a memorial bench in honour of Jim Harvey, the housing consultant and former Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of Housing Associations (GWSF) director, who passed away last year. Jim’s surviving partner Andrew Leitch is looking to raise £

Places for People has appointed specialist affordable housing sales agency Highlight Housing to market and sell its shared equity properties across Scotland.

Places for People is expanding its support for customers this winter by partnering with 49 warm banks and food banks across the UK – seven of which are in Scotland.

Scottish Ministers have overruled West Lothian Council's decision to refuse permission for a new housing development in Mid Calder.

In 2023-24, The British Gas Energy Trust (the Trust) was able to support more than 64,000 households across Britain with money and energy advice, emergency fuel payments, white goods and energy debt grants.

Glasgow-based technology firm Archangel has recently secured a share of a £600,000 Smart & Connected Social Places (SCSP) 5G Innovation fund with support from the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI), to deliver a ground-breaking integrated housing and care technology project

Modular housebuilder Connect Modular has entered administration, resulting in the loss of dozens of jobs.

Edinburgh councillors are a week away from potentially approving Scotland's first Visitor Levy, a scheme aimed at raising up to £50 million annually through a 5% charge in addition to the cost of overnight accommodation.

A planning application has been submitted for 152 affordable homes in Glasgow for New Gorbals Housing Association. The new homes for social rent will partially offset the loss of 276 flats in two empty high rise blocks at 341 and 305 Caledonia Road, scheduled to be demolished this year.

One of Melville Housing Association’s longest-serving staff members, who has spent more than 15 years supporting tenants, resolving issues and providing help and advice, is calling time on her stellar housing career.  Linda Hay, a housing officer with more than 27 years experience in the

River Clyde Homes (RCH) has moved to allay fears from Inverclyde Council over the proposed transfer of pensions for some of its employees. A motion put forward by Councillor Colin Jackson ahead of a full council meeting last month expressed concerns that the housing association is considering moving

Substantial investment in existing homes has weakened England's social housing sector’s financial position, which can also be seen in a number of recent regulatory judgements, according to the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH).