Housing

University blamed for housing crisis had 131 student vacancies

Billy Briggs on October 30, 2018October 30, 2018

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

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, 2018October 4, 2018

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

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

Jamie Mann on September 7, 2018September 9, 2018

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

Councils paid £660m for temporary homeless accommodation

Karin Goodwin, Peter Geoghegan on August 17, 2018August 29, 2018

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

Housing and homelessness, International

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.