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Oak Tree Housing Association has been awarded Best Practice in Digital Involvement runner up by the Tenant Participation Advisory Service (TPAS) Scotland, as part of its National Good Practice Awards.

Homeless men in Glasgow who are addicted to alcohol could be giving measured amounts of wine under a new harm reduction project which has gained success in Canada.

Health and wellbeing charity LinkLiving is turning young people’s lives around thanks to its innovative new ‘Steps To Resilience’ programme.

Humanitarian charity Al-Khair is working with two other homeless organisations to support rough sleepers in Glasgow during the cold weather.

The rejection of a plan to knock down an East Glasgow pub and build 24 two-bedroom flats in its place has been overturned on appeal.

Social housing technology specialist DtL Creative has welcomed Stewart Davison and Aidan Dunphy to its team. DtL said the new appointments will help the firm provide innovative digital solutions for clients - such as new technologies, artificial intelligence, internet of things, etc - and

Allia C&C has issued a loan of £12 million through the Scottish Government’s charitable bonds scheme to enable Blackwood Homes and Care to deliver 160 highly accessible homes across Scotland.

The full roll-out of Universal Credit is set for another delay, adding £500 million to its overall cost, according to reports.

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has started work on the first phases of two new developments in Edinburgh which will provide 510 new homes.

Work is being undertaken to remove asbestos from 160 council-owned homes in Aberdeenshire. The substance was found as Aberdeenshire Council initiated a modernisation programme for the homes.

GHA environmental staff have recycled dumped household items like washing machines and cookers and raised more than £13,000 for charity. GHA’s David McKay and Maria Corrigan with tenant Margaret McMillan, along with James Stuart and Jamie Forrester, and some of the items they have recycl

Staff and residents at a Hillcrest Futures service in Edinburgh have extended their thanks to the Barclay Viewforth Church for a surprise donation of £208. The team at Bruntsfield House received the money which was raised from the retiring offering at the church’s Watchnight service on C

The House of Lords' economic affairs committee has launched an inquiry into the economics of Universal Credit.

SFHA’s Technology Enabled Care in Housing programme co-ordinator, Geraldine Begg, explains what organisations can gain by signing up to the TEC in Housing Charter. Over the last two weeks, four more housing organisations have pledged their commitment to the TEC in Housing (TECH) Charter.

Inverclyde Council is to bid for ‘special case’ funding from the Scottish Government following the results of national deprivation figures. Last week, the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) statistics revealed that Greenock Town Centre was the ‘most deprived’ area