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Marco Biagi The Scottish Parliament has approved a bill giving communities the right to buy land or buildings in their area.

Gordon Matheson A project has been launched to help develop a long-term plan to allow Glasgow more resilient to challenges ranging from climate change to poverty.

Jimmy Black The impact of welfare reform on the people of Dundee is set to come under the spotlight at the next meeting of the city’s Fairness Commission.

Orkney Islands Council has invited the public to attend a drop-in session to view plans for a future housing development. The site is located on the outskirts of Kirkwall in Weyland, with proposals drawn up for the development of 46 homes over two phases.

A group of eight small housing associations in the Greater Easterhouse area have commissioned a report which challenges the perception that you can only improve value for money by increasing in size. Easterhouse Housing and Regeneration Alliance (EHRA) asked the Scottish Housing Best Value Network (

John Swinney Almost £100 million in council tax bills went unpaid across Scotland last year, according to new data.

Mrs Burgess and Cllr Cammy Day. (Photo credit: Donald MacLeod) The Scottish Government has given the go ahead for 80 new affordable homes in Edinburgh, part of almost 1,000 homes earmarked for sites across the city.

Housing minister Margaret Burgess and GHA chair Gordon Sloan met tenant Domenic Lombardi in his new home Flats earmarked for demolition have been given a new lease of life thanks to a £3.4 million regeneration project in Glasgow.

Progress is well under way with the first new homes now on site at a new housing development in Niddrie, Edinburgh. Being developed by CCG (Scotland) Ltd, The Schoolhouse is giving a new lease of life to the site of the former Niddrie Mill Primary School.

The quality of the working relationship between South Lanarkshire Council and its tenants has been recognised at a national level. South Lanarkshire was shortlisted in three categories in the TIS National Excellence Awards 2015.

GHA is supporting a project to help social housing tenants most in need book an affordable break. Carers, people suffering from physical and learning disabilities, families on low incomes and tenants recovering from domestic abuse are among the vulnerable groups being helped by the Caravan Project.

A merger between two Dundee companies has seen Clean Close Company become part of Hillcrest Maintenance Services and the Hillcrest Group. With a history of over eight years of working together, the merger will help to safeguard jobs of the 20 people working for Clean Close as well as create new job

Cube housing officer Shari Parris visits tenant Deirdre McLaughlin at her home in Lennoxtown. (Pic Bill Fleming) Cube Housing Association staff are visiting every one of their tenants to find out how to improve services.

The Athletes’ Village in Glasgow is one of nine housing projects competing for the Royal Town Planning Institute’s (RTPI) prestigious planning awards this year. Submitted by Glasgow City Council, the project has involved the regeneration and development of a large area of 32.5 hectares of brownf

The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) is welcoming applications for the 2015/16 Big Energy Saving Network (BESN). The BESN is a £1 million programme to support third sector organisations and community groups deliver help and advice to vulnerable consumers.