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COVID-19 has had a major impact on the attitudes and concerns towards those who are homeless, according to new research from Nationwide Building Society as it called on charities, community land trusts and housing co-operatives to apply for community funding.

Clydebank Housing Association (CHA) has been awarded £52,900 from the Scottish Government Wellbeing Fund to enhance the services they have been providing to residents during the coronavirus pandemic. The award has allowed for the delivery of three-day food parcels for individuals and families,

Cunninghame Housing Association has teamed up with Raydale Community Partnership and Gretna FC 2008 to create a new community sports hub in the heart of Gretna for local residents.

Govan’s own orchestra known as The Glasgow Barons has been running hugely-popular music sessions to entertain shoppers and passers-by at Govan Cross each Wednesday.

Despite the restrictions and difficulties presented by lockdown, the new Perth team at Rock Trust launched a project commissioned by Perth & Kinross Council to help young people affected by homelessness in the city.

Plans to deliver 31 new homes at the former Maud Hospital in Buchan have been given the green light.

The Legal Services Agency (LSA) is hosting virtual meetings to allow lawyers in the social justice sector to connect during lockdown. The next one is at 4pm this Thursday and will include short presentations from the Equality and Human Rights Commission and Shelter Scotland.

In line with government guidance and Scotland moving into phase two of the road map, Thorntons Estate Agency is preparing for face to face appointments from June 29 and tackle its list of 1300 viewing appointments and over 220 market appraisals.   Peter Ryder, managing director of estate a

The billionaire president of the United Arab Emirates filled the water tanks of his 18th-century mansion with Evian mineral water, court documents have claimed.

Prospect Community Housing has been granted planning permission for a development of 69 homes at Clovenstone Gardens in Edinburgh.

Scotland's construction sector can move into the next phase of its restart plan from Monday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced.

The combined data on the Housing First Scotland Pathfinder programme is now available covering both April and May, when housing allocations all but stopped. Significant additional pressure across the public and charity sectors, including organisations delivering support to tenants, has been on a sca

The reconvened Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Group (HARSAG) was the subject of the latest meeting of the Social Housing Resilience Group (SHRG) this week.

South Lanarkshire Council and the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) have reached an agreement to make student accommodation in Hamilton available for people who are homeless.

Blackwood has signed up to the national Technology Enabled Care (TEC) in Housing Charter to support the use of technology-based housing solutions.