HouseMark’s HRA Business Plan Comparison tool launched in Scotland

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Published 18 March 2015

£21m for community ownership of energy projects

A local heat storage initiative by Castle Rock Edinvar Housing Association is one of five projects across Scotland to benefit from more than £20 million in funding that will help reshape how energy is delivered and used in communities throughout the country.

Published 18 March 2015

Kilmarnock housing development nears completion

39 new houses at the West Langlands Street development in Kilmarnock are expected to be completed by the end of the month, with the keys being handed to new tenants just after Easter.

Published 18 March 2015

Low energy housing could help tackle affordable rural homes shortage

A Dumfriesshire estate owner who has provided pioneering, low energy housing has told a cross-party group of MSPs about the role such developments could play in easing fuel poverty and the shortage of affordable rural homes across Scotland.

Published 18 March 2015

SFHA calls for an end to UK housing crisis

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has backed a call for an end to the current UK housing crisis.

Published 18 March 2015

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Published 18 March 2015

Funding success for Loreburn’s Let’s Get Sporty initiative

Loreburn Housing Association and the Let’s Get Sporty project has successfully applied for Putting You First Funding which will allow activities to be held at Loreburn sheltered developments across Dumfries and Galloway.

Published 17 March 2015

Maryhill ‘nose’ how to fundraise for Comic Relief

Maryhill Housing Association has been doing its bit to raise money for Comic Relief.In a day of fundraising, staff raised a red hot £285 for the charity, which raised a colossal £78 million on Red Nose Day 2015 last Friday.

Published 17 March 2015

Waverley Housing hosts tenants’ open day

Published 17 March 2015

Tenants at the heart of ng homes services

A group of ng homes tenants are ensuring their landlord delivers the best possible services to its customers and also highlighting where improvements need to be made.

Published 17 March 2015

UK: Bill passed to prevent ‘revenge evictions’

A law banning so-called ‘revenge evictions’ in England was passed yesterday by the House of Lords.

Published 17 March 2015

Dumfries homeless support project receives funding from DGHP

A Dumfries-based homeless support charity has received a grant of almost £5,000 from a Dumfries and Galloway Housing Partnership (DGHP) tenant committee.

Published 17 March 2015

Athletes’ Village move ‘life changing’ for Glasgow family

The lives of a Glasgow family have been transformed with a move to the former 2014 Commonwealth Games Athletes’ Village, in Dalmarnock.

Published 17 March 2015

MSPs ‘surprised and saddened’ over to Mundell food bank evidence

A Scottish Parliament committee has sent evidence that shows the link between the UK government’s welfare reform and an increase in the use of food banks to Scotland Office minister David Mundell MP.

Published 17 March 2015

Over half a million Scots ‘in severe poverty’

Published 17 March 2015