City of Edinburgh Council has agreed to redirect all available council-owned housing stock towards people experiencing ...

Emergency action has been taken by Edinburgh City Council to suspend its current lettings policy in a bid to tackle the ...

As councillors took the difficult decision to suspend housing allocations, it emerged the Council could purchase a student ...

City of Edinburgh Council will consider redirecting all available council-owned housing stock towards people experiencing ...

Edinburgh council’s decision to suspend ... awaiting discharge from hospital. Free council housing units will be used either for temporary accommodation for homeless people, or for permanent ...

New figures show the council is increasingly unable to find temporary accommodation for people presenting as homeless.

Over half of the requests for temporary accommodation in Edinburgh went unmet ... Year on year, instances where the council has failed to provide housing have more than doubled to 3,263, rising ...

The council response is a freeze on housing allocations until the summer, possibly longer, with only those with the top “gold ...

A meeting to decide on what action will be taken will take place on Friday, April 25, with councillors backing the most severe out of four available options in a bid to give the local authority time ...

Edinburgh councillors have approved emergency measures to tackle the city's worsening homelessness crisis. The local ...