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The former headquarters of Strathclyde Police will house a £105 million private sector rental scheme housing 365 apartments, Moda Living have announced. The scheme at Pitt Street, designed by Haus Architects in Glasgow, will be Moda’s first in Scotland.

Aberdeenshire Council has announced "ambitious plans" to create more than 2,500 affordable homes by 2022 at a cost of £135 million. The council's draft strategic housing investment plan estimates that around £95 million of the total cost involved in creating 2,516 new properties could be secured t

Cairn Housing Association and ANCHO are formally exploring the establishment of a constitutional partnership which will have a total of 4200 homes under management across 22 local authorities. The partnership proposal, which was agreed by the ANCHO Board last night, would increase the financial and

Unite members taking part in September's strike Workers at Wishaw and District Housing Association will begin four days of industrial action from today, the second strike over working conditions in as many months.

Wheatley Group is looking to borrow £150m from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to continue its regeneration plans. An application currently under appraisal at the EIB describes the loan as financing the retrofitting of existing social housing stock to meet Scottish and EU energy efficiency stand

Housing staff will stage a demonstration outside Sanctuary Group’s headquarters in Worcester today in protest over proposed pay conditions. Members of the Unite union will highlight to members of the public the difference between CEO David Bennett’s £320,000 salary and the £8,000 pay cut that

Inverclyde-based housing association River Clyde Homes has issued its first ever report on performance, value for money and affordability. The report differs from previous performance related publications issued as part of its Annual Report on the Scottish Social Housing Charter (ARC), as this is th

(from left) Melville staff members Morag MacDonald, Andrew Collinge, Jacquie Mather and Sean Dickson Melville Housing Association’s Welfare Benefits team, who last year helped tenants access more than £500,000 in benefits that would otherwise have remained unclaimed, has won a prestigious nationa

Dundee City Council has outlined plans to invest almost £400 million on infrastructure projects across the city over the next five years. The £387m programme to be undertaken between 2017 and 2022 takes in play areas, schools, the V&A Dundee, well insulated council housing and initiatives desi

Councillor Cammy Day explains how the City of Edinburgh Council is tackling the capital's acute housing shortage and lack of affordable homes. Edinburgh is a fantastic place to live, as our Edinburgh People Survey consistently shows, and this is reflected by the many thousands of people who want to

A new online service offered by Perth & Kinross Council will match tenants who are looking for a mutual exchange of homes. The new Swap and Move service will make the process of house-swaps easier and safer for tenants who are looking to move to another property.

(from left) Linda Smith and her son Charlie, William Smith, Cllr. Judy Hamilton, Doreen Smith and Jacqui Sinclair, housing project officer outside William Smith’s new ground floor property Twenty-two Fife Council homes which form the final phase of homes for rent at Silverdykes are nearing complet

Outgoing chair Angela Sulo (left) is presented with a glass sculpture by honorary member Marlen Jones Scottish Borders Tenants Organisation (SBTO) chair Angela Sulo received a warm vote of thanks as she marked the end of two years in office at the organisation’s AGM, held at Scottish Borders Housi

With the Scottish Government committing to building 50,000 affordable homes over the lifetime of the current parliament, a conference beginning today is to discuss how Scotland’s rural and island communities can ensure that a fair share of the homes are built in their areas. The Scottish Rural and

The Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of Housing Associations (GWSF) has praised the Scottish Government’s People and Communities Fund (PCF) for reaching local communities directly and has called for it to be a priority in the forthcoming Spending Review. Issuing a briefing on the Fund, GWSF says