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Housing

Almost 300,000 Scots have been unable to pay their rent or mortgage after running out of cash, Citizens Advice Scotland calculated. (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Almost 300,000 Scots unable to pay rent or mortgage, survey suggests

21/09/2021

Michael Gove is the new Housing Secretary (Jane Barlow/PA)

UK

Michael Gove to review planning reforms and discuss them with Tory critics

17/09/2021

Protesters from Leaseholders Together gather at the rally in Parliament Square (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

UK

Leaseholder system is broken, Mayor of London says

17/09/2021

The Scottish Government failed to meet its target of building 50,000 affordable new homes over the lifetime of the last parliament (Rui Viera/PA)

Ministers need ‘real plan’ after failing to meet affordable housing target

14/09/2021

Aberdeen has the highest rate of empty housing in Scotland.

Owners could be forced to sell up as council approves empty housing policy

14/09/2021

A poll suggests many private renters have faced illegal acts from landlords (Victoria Jones/PA)

UK

45% of private renters face illegal acts from landlord or agent – Shelter

14/09/2021

Workers laying bricks at a construction site (Taylor Wimpey/PA)

UK

Jenrick sets out £8.6bn funding package to boost affordable housing supply

31/08/2021

A new study suggests young people are now just as likely to become parents while living in private rented accommodation as they are while owning their own home (Yui Mok/PA)

UK

‘New parents as likely to be in private rented housing as own homes’

30/08/2021

The Everyone In scheme saw rough sleepers accommodated during the pandemic (PA)

UK

Under a quarter housed by ‘Everyone In’ given settled accommodation – charity

27/08/2021

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said he will expand his new Right to Buy-back fund to help councils purchase homes which could be used to resettle families arriving from Afghanistan (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

UK

Sadiq Khan sets out plans to help house Afghan refugees in London

26/08/2021

Greig Court and Hutcheon Court, Aberdeen. Around 40 council housing staff are to go on strike for four days as a row over changes to their roles escalates.

Aberdeen Housing Rights Defenders urge public views on renting in the Granite City

26/08/2021

(PA)

UK

Tourism industry hit by Brexit, Covid-19 and surge in holidaymakers

25/08/2021

The fund to help tenants was announced in late June but has not yet launched (PA)

Hardship fund for tenants must be launched with urgency, says Labour

23/08/2021

Richard Bacon MP believes self-build homes are a ‘missing market’ (PA)

UK

‘Missing market’ for self-build homes in the UK, review finds

21/08/2021

A survey found that two- fifths of young adults do not understand how a mortgage works (Danny Lawson/PA)

Mortgages a mystery to many as young people struggle to get on property ladder

18/08/2021

Privately rented homes are among the least energy efficient (Jane Barlow/PA)

Costs of making rented homes greener are too high, report warns

11/08/2021

Union members picketing outside Marischal College in Broad Street, Aberdeen, last month.

Family ‘lost and neglected’ as Aberdeen council housing row escalates with four-day strike

27/07/2021

An array of organisations and experts are joining forces in a push to tackle the UK’s ‘housing crisis’, Nationwide Building Society has announced (Victoria Jones/PA)

Housing experts will group together to find ways to tackle homes ‘crisis’

26/07/2021

Labour is demanding action after a ‘shocking’ rise in the number of Scots with mental health problems who are either homeless or facing losing their home (Nick Answell/PA)

‘Shocking rise’ in homelessness among Scots with mental health problems

26/07/2021

Figures show planning applications for major housing developments took on average more than a year to be determined (Joe Giddens/PA)

House building industry condemns ‘unacceptable’ wait for planning approval

22/07/2021

The Government pledged to end rough sleeping in its 2019 manifesto (Nick Ansell/PA)

UK

Homelessness rises in UK but still below pre-lockdown levels

22/07/2021

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick (Dominic Lipinaki/PA)

UK

Putting beauty at heart of planning will stop community objections – Jenrick

20/07/2021

Glasgow City Council will get the largest amount of cash (Joe Giddens/PA)

More than £3bn of funding for councils to help boost affordable housing

16/07/2021

Campaigners at Shelter Scotland said ministers need to be ‘more ambitious’ on affordable housing Gareth Fuller/PA)

Ministers urged to be ‘more ambitious’ on affordable housing despite £3bn pledge

16/07/2021

John Lewis plans to move into the property rental market (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

UK

John Lewis unveils plans to move into home rental market

04/07/2021

People walking past a homeless man in London (Nick Ansell/PA)

UK

English councils ‘spending five times more on homeless people in B&Bs’

03/07/2021

Housing associations and landlord groups in Scotland have insisted eviction should be a last resort (PA)

Evictions remain last resort after ban lifted, say landlord groups

27/06/2021

Council leader Jenny Laing at a 2018 press event, publicising the council's plans for Aberdeen's first outdoor nursery.

Watchdog calls for improvements – quickly – in Aberdeen’s ‘underperforming’ schools and council housing

24/06/2021

Perry, 57, is only able to leave the house three or four times a month as he struggles with the stairs - having asked for a move to a more suitable council flat three years ago

Disabled Aberdeen man only able to leave upstairs flat ‘three or four times a month’ as he awaits council house move

26/05/2021

Housing staff at Aberdeen City Council are set to walk out.

Residents to be affected as council housing workers strike over ‘massive’ workload increase

25/05/2021

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