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Iain Gordon, chief executive of Bethany Christian Trust Homelessness charity Bethany Christian Trust has announced it has become a Living Wage employer.

31b-37 High Street in Perth Property owners in Perth city centre have begun a comprehensive repairs project to a historic tenement building.

Ashleigh Day, assistant estimator at Esh Border Construction, with Fresh Start operations manager, Stewart Ferguson Esh Border Construction is helping deliver a fresh start for people in need in Edinburgh after handing a homeless organisation a vital bursary boost.

Thousands of people with direct personal experience of the current benefits system have signed up to help shape the delivery of benefits in Scotland’s new social security system. As recruitment comes to a close, the latest volunteer figures for the Experience Panels stand at 2,335 – far in exces

Housing and homelessness charity Shelter Scotland has hit out at the “shameful” numbers of rough sleepers dying on the streets of Glasgow after new figures revealed that four homeless people are dying every month in the city. Figures obtained by the Sunday Herald from Glasgow City Council via fr

Kevin Stewart Scotland’s housing minister will today pledge his support to national homelessness charity Crisis as it starts to build a plan to end homelessness in Scotland for good.

Tim Vine announced the winners of the 2017 Homes for Scotland Annual Awards at the organisation’s Annual Lunch in Edinburgh, with Barratt Homes scooping Home Builder of the Year Barratt Homes has been crowned Homes for Scotland’s Home Builder of the Year at the trade body’s largest ever ceremo

The redevelopment of the former Broxburn Primary School in West Lothian has been named Affordable Housing Development of the Year at the 2017 Homes for Scotland Awards. Partnership housing developer Lovell was presented with the award at a special ceremony at the Edinburgh International Conference C

Nicola Barclay The challenges facing those delivering the new homes that Scotland desperately needs are getting ever steeper, according to a leading industry figure.

Hillcrest Housing Association has awarded Ogilvie Construction a £4 million contract to build 40 new homes in Dundee.

Architecture firm Sheppard Robson has achieved planning consent for a 180-unit residential project which will reinvigorate a prominent brownfield site on the Water of Leith River in the north of the city. The practice said its Canonmills Garden development for client Artisan REI will address the adj

Neil Clapperton, chief executive of Grampian Housing Association (left) and Kevin Stewart MSP Grampian Housing Association and its subsidiary Kirkgate Developments are celebrating the completion of its latest development of affordable homes, increasing the group’s portfolio of properties for rent

A national energy efficiency contract worth up to £800 million over four years is launched today. The new framework is Scotland Excel’s largest ever contract opportunity, with 26 Scottish companies securing places as suppliers - 21 of which are micro or SME organisations.

ACHA tenant Bob Munro, Councillor Donnie MacMillan and Councillor Robin Currie cut the ribbon opening ACHA's new office for the southern Hebrides in Bowmore, Islay Veteran councillor Donnie MacMillan, 89, has helped Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) open its new office in Bowmore on the is

Chris Cunningham Following his re-election to Glasgow City Council last week, Chris Cunningham has given notice to Shettleston Housing Association of his intention to leave the Association in the autumn of this year.