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    Category: Affordable housing

    Compulsory purchases to be converted into ‘social rent’ housing

    GLASGOW’S local authority is to invoke compulsory purchase powers, to acquire a group of flats and a derelict building, to be converted into flats for…

    admin September 14, 2023

    Buying-up-properties fund announced to add to ‘affordable’ housing stock

    SOME £60m of government funding has been announced, for local authorities to spend on acquiring properties for people requiring ‘affordable housing’. Says the Scottish Government,…

    admin July 19, 2023

    Waiting list for ‘social housing’ estimated to be 10x the annual supply

    THERE are almost ten times as many people estimated to be on waiting lists for ‘social rent’ – ie low cost – housing as there…

    admin July 10, 2023

    Latest ‘affordable’ and ‘social rent’ homes statistics

    THERE have been 122,201 homes built in Scotland deemed to be ‘affordable’, including for ‘social rent’, since 2007-08. The figure – up to the end…

    admin June 27, 2023

    Phase one of affordable housing development completed for former hospital site

    A FORMER hospital site – which has lain vacant since 2014 – has been turned into a housing development, its first phase completed, with 149…

    admin May 25, 2023
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    Empty properties targeted for key worker ‘affordable’ housing scheme

    ‘AFFORDABLE’ homes for key workers in remote parts of Scotland is the aim of an empty-homes-restoration project launched in Argyll and Bute. The scheme –…

    admin May 22, 2023

    ‘Affordable’ housing agreement struck in regeneration scheme

    OVER 100 ‘social rent’ homes have been approved for a regeneration area almost immediately to the west of Edinburgh city centre. The Fountainbridge site –…

    admin May 11, 2023

    ‘Social’ and ‘affordable’ housing statistics

    JUST over 6,300 homes categorised as either ‘social rent’ or (the usually slightly more expensive) ‘affordable’ have been completed in Scotland between April last year…

    admin May 5, 2023

    ‘Social housing’ campaign launched, aimed at First Minister

    A CAMPAIGN has been launched to put housing at social rent levels at the top of the new First Minister, Humza Yousaf’s political agenda. The…

    admin April 30, 2023

    3,300 ‘affordable’ homes set for the Highlands

    PLANS have been announced by Highland Council for a house-building programme to deliver 3,300 ‘affordable’ homes over the next five years. It follows a decision…

    admin April 30, 2023
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