Housing

Housing and homelessness, Finance

House builders demand more Help to Buy subsidies from government

Jamie Mann, Ally Tibbitt on December 16, 2019December 19, 2019

Lobbyists acting for the housing industry have demanded continued Help to Buy subsidies from the Scottish Government, despite criticism that the cash simply inflates house prices.

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Scottish families priced out of rental homes by UK austerity policies

Karin Goodwin on October 4, 2019October 6, 2019

Families on housing benefit are being priced out of homes across Scotland, according to new data from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

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University blamed for housing crisis had 131 student vacancies

Billy Briggs on October 30, 2018April 6, 2019

A university accused of fuelling a housing crisis in St Andrews had 131 student accommodation vacancies at the start of the new term.

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Fact check, Housing and homelessness

Claim Scotland spends 10 times more per person on social housing than England is Half True

Ferret Journalists on October 4, 2018April 6, 2019

Ferret Fact Service looks at the the differing levels of spending on social housing between Scotland and England.

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Revealed: the hidden storage costs faced by Scotland’s homeless

Jamie Mann on September 7, 2018April 6, 2019

Homeless people are often charged by local authorities for storing their personal belongings after they lose their accommodation.

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Councils paid £660m for temporary homeless accommodation

Karin Goodwin, Peter Geoghegan on August 17, 2018April 6, 2019

Local authorities across Scotland have paid out more than half a billion pounds putting homeless people in temporary accommodation in the last five years.

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New housing estates fail people by favouring cars, says study

Rob Edwards on July 29, 2018April 6, 2019

New housing estates in Scotland have been branded “car sick” because they pander to drivers at the expense of pedestrians, public transport and bikes.

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International, Housing and homelessness

The Moscow residents fighting to save their communist era homes

Ferret Journalists on February 13, 2018March 3, 2018

In September 2017, Chris Leslie, award winning photographer and filmmaker, and Dr Jonathan Charley, from the Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, visited Moscow to report on one of the largest urban migration programmes in history.

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Housing and homelessness

‘Dysfunctional’ Help to Buy subsidy should be scrapped, say critics

Ally Tibbitt on December 4, 2017August 19, 2019

The Scottish Government has been urged to drop Help to Buy subsidies for home-buyers after data reveals it mainly benefits big house-builders.

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Housing

Housing and homelessness, Finance

House builders demand more Help to Buy subsidies from government

Housing and homelessness

Scottish families priced out of rental homes by UK austerity policies

Housing and homelessness

University blamed for housing crisis had 131 student vacancies

Housing and homelessness

Revealed: the hidden storage costs faced by Scotland’s homeless

Housing and homelessness

Councils paid £660m for temporary homeless accommodation

Environment

New housing estates fail people by favouring cars, says study

International, Housing and homelessness

The Moscow residents fighting to save their communist era homes

Housing and homelessness

‘Dysfunctional’ Help to Buy subsidy should be scrapped, say critics

Wildlife at risk after fivefold drop in official monitoring

Environmental inspections in Scotland down by a quarter

Trump’s Turnberry resort condemned for environmental breaches

Saudi-led forces face trials over alleged war crimes linked to Fife arms firm