Shelter Scotland

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Prisoners at HMP Castle Huntly are being offered the chance of a housing advice placement in the Dundee offices of Shelter Scotland. The placement delivers low level housing advice, with the housing and homeless charity putting the selected individual through their training to national housing quali

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Harry McGuigan New guidance has been issued to support the development of Housing Options approaches in Scotland’s local authorities.

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Alex Neil The Scottish Government has agreed with the Commission on Housing and Wellbeing that housing is fundamental to the wellbeing, fairness and prosperity of the country and has vowed to undertake a number of measures in line with the Commission’s recommendations.

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Shelter Scotland’s private landlord support officer, Bryan Powell, details how he works to improve the private rented sector in Lochaber. I am working with the Private Landlords in Lochaber to improve housing conditions and tenancy management across the area. At a time when two thirds of Scotlandâ

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Graeme Brown Scotland’s national housing and homelessness charity is calling on kind-hearted Scots to donate this year’s Leap Day – Monday 29th February – by volunteering in one of its nationwide shops.

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A new partnership has been launched to tackle the problem of empty homes across Dundee and Angus. The project between the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership, Dundee City Council and Angus Council, is set to launch this week to help bring some of the region’s long-term privately owned empty homes bac

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James Battye As the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Bill moves at a pace through the infrastructure and capital investment committee, James Battye, policy officer at Shelter Scotland, discusses how things will change for the 330,000 households renting from private landlords across Scotland.

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Stirling’s first street clinic offering housing and homelessness advice is setting up home today on Port Street. Experts from charity Shelter Scotland will be on hand from 10am-3pm to offer help and advice on a range of housing issues, including rent and mortgage arrears, fuel poverty, money and d

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Fiona King With less than 100 days until the Holyrood Election on May 6 there is a critical, albeit small, window of opportunity to influence the nation’s politicians and the political debate, writes Fiona King, campaigns & public affairs manager at Shelter Scotland.

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By Scottish Empty Homes Partnership national manager Kristen Hubert (Last week) we released our recommendations about what financial incentive programmes we think are needed to unlock more of Scotland’s 27,000+ long term private sector empty homes.

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