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Mya, Josh, Charley, Ellie, Charlie-Anne, Sarina & Dakota of Newhouse Road with Ivor Goodsite from Keepmoat Ivor Goodsite was the special guest in attendance at the Newhouse Road Family Fun Day in Perth last month marking the official start of Caledonia Housing Association’s regeneration of the

Alex Neil A new delivery agency will be set up to administer social security payments worth £2.7 billion when they are devolved to Scotland, social justice secretary Alex Neil announced today.

CIH Scotland has today launched an Agenda for Change, outlining a series of recommendations to improve Scotland’s housing system across five key policy areas. Launched at CIH Scotland’s Annual Conference in Edinburgh in anticipation of the forthcoming Scottish Parliament elections in May of this

Fergus Ewing A major programme to make public sector buildings more energy efficient gets underway today.

West Lothian Council will spend over £109 million over the next two years improving and increasing its council housing stock. Approved at a meeting of the council executive last week, the investment will see over £76m spent on building new council houses.

The board of Fairfield Housing Co-operative has approved a 1.9 per cent increase to rents from April 1st following an extensive consultation with tenants. The consultation, which saw Fairfield use text messaging, feedback forms and e-mail survey links, resulted in 76 per cent of those responding say

Exterior of The View A deal has been agreed between The EDI Group Ltd and housebuilder Cruden Homes to build a further 148 new homes in Craigmillar, Edinburgh.

Marc Giles Marc Giles, planning consultant at Ryden, on the part planning plays in delivering housing and infrastructure.

Graeme Brown A new online hub has been launched to help renters in Scotland’s private rented sector navigate their rights and responsibilities.

A “step-change” is needed in Scotland’s approach to its credit industry to break the cycle of financial exclusion experienced by many of the country’s most deprived citizens, according to a new report. The Carnegie UK Trust’s Affordable Credit Working Group said access to credit in Scotlan

Two of Scotland's cities have been named among the fastest-declining places in the UK by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). A JRF report, titled ‘Uneven growth: tackling city decline’, considered a range of long-term economic factors including population change, unemployment rates, job creati

A campaign to cut the cost of electricity and gas in Scotland using people power is being launched today. One Big Switch has launched the Big Energy Switch in Scotland in response to the current energy affordability crisis gripping Scotland in which one in three Scottish households is suffering from

Renewables has come out top of a new poll that asked people in Scotland which energy source the next Scottish Government should prioritise. As Scotland heads to the polls on May 5, the YouGov survey asked more than 1,000 respondents whether the next government should prioritise the continued develop

The two birthday residents on either side of Janice McDonald from Hanover Hanover Scotland Housing Association organised a special party yesterday for two of its residents who will celebrate their 18thand 23rd birthdays despite being 72 and 92 years old.

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