25 Jun 2020

What has sustainable IT got to do with the housing sector?

om Greenwood, managing director, Wholegrain Digital, shares his thoughts on the challenges and opportunities Green IT brings to the housing sector.

24 Jun 2020 | Development and regeneration | Financial wellbeing | Support and wellbeing

Putting homes at the heart of recovery

Our homes have never been more important to us than they have been during the COVID-19 crisis. CIH chief executive, Gavin Smart shares his thoughts on why homes should be at the heart of recovery.

17 Apr 2020 | Regulation and legal

Supporting someone to move home during lockdown

Ashley Campbell, Policy and practice manager at CIH Scotland, answers a query from a member about whether a victim of domestic abuse can get help to move home without breaking lockdown rules.

08 Apr 2020 | Professionalism and training

Employability in rural areas

Louise Bennett, employment support officer at Victory Housing tells us about the rural nature of the county and the challenges this brings for the team and communities.

06 Apr 2020 | Professionalism and training

Housing is more than just rents and repairs

Housing organisations today need to adopt a more holistic approach to service delivery – gone are the days of simply collecting the rents and carrying out repairs.

19 Mar 2020 | Regulation and legal

A small in-house team with a big heart

Melissa O’Donnell from Golden Lane Housing explains the steps taken to start deliver their own property repairs, earning them a place on the shortlist for direct labour organisation of the year.

11 Mar 2020 | CIH updates | Professionalism and training

My route into housing

Tara Bold CIHCM shared her route to housing

10 Mar 2020 | Development and regeneration

Putting community at the heart of housebuilding

Countryside explain what they’ve been up to to be nominated to win the homebuilder of the year award at this year's UK Housing Awards.

01 Mar 2020 | Regulation and legal

What makes a landlord great?

David Richmond, assistant director of neighbourhoods and housing from Hull City Council talks about what makes a good landlord and what they’re doing in Hull to be the best they can be.

31 Dec 2019 | Homelessness

We know how to end homelessness, so why haven't we done so already?

In this opinion piece originally published in The Herald, Jennifer Galbraith, Policy and practice officer at CIH Scotland discusses the challenges of ending homelessness in Scotland.

10 Jul 2019 | Financial wellbeing

Time's up for temporary accommodation

Ashley Campbell examines the future of temporary accommodation in Scotland as the latest figures show that the number of households in temporary accommodation is increasing

30 Apr 2019 | Climate and sustainability | Financial wellbeing | Regulation and legal

Queens Cross reassures EU tenants over Brexit

In the lead up to Brexit, Queens Cross Housing Association outlines the steps they are taking to help their EU national tenants prepare.

30 Apr 2019 | Climate and sustainability | Regulation and legal | Support and wellbeing

Four simple ways to improve your tenants' health and wellbeing

A new guest blog for CIH Scotland, Dr Steve Rolfe from the University of Stirling and Dr Lisa Garnham from the Glasgow Centre for Population Health.

14 Mar 2019 | Financial wellbeing | Regulation and legal

Sex for rent: The harsh reality of a broken housing market

As the Housing Woman Cymru campaign to end sex for rent. Katie from Merthyr Valleys Homes tell us the story of the sickening practice of people offering free rent in exchange for sex or sexual acts.

14 Mar 2019 | Climate and sustainability | Financial wellbeing

Surviving Economic Abuse

Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA) is the only national charity dedicated to raising awareness of economic abuse and transforming responses to it.