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Photo: Two high-rise buildings. Source: Nothing Ahead

Slow progress on cladding in Edinburgh and Leith

The Housing (Cladding Remediation) Scotland Act 2024 was passed in May last year and came ...

By Broughton Spurtle

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Photo: Local resident holds up Glasgow-Roma solidarity poster against backdrop of Govanhill tenements. Source: Photo by Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

New research finds Roma are being denied decent housing in Glasgow’s Govanhill

A research project by Roma rights group Romano Lav and Poverty Alliance, Scotland’s anti-poverty network, ...

By Devon McCole, Greater Govanhill

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‘Wake up and do something’: SELECT backs Grenfell Inquiry call

SELECT’s managing director Alan Wilson says the findings echo their long-running campaign for a safer ...

By Midlothian View, Luke Jackson

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A letter from Scotland on the housing emergency

Scotland has an official “housing emergency”. The Scottish Parliament declared this to be so on ...

By John Knox

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Rural & island communities facing a housing crisis

Rural and island communities are facing a housing crisis with second/multiple home ownership, holiday lets ...

By Fiona Grahame, The Orkney News

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