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Building more affordable houses is vital to tackling poverty (Picture: Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images)

Failure to tackle housing crisis means goal of ending poverty is another fantasy John McLellan

Here's how people in Edinburgh and the Lothians will be impacted by the real-terms benefits cut (PA/Getty)

Benefits cut to impact quarter of people in Lothian Ian Swanson

Finance Secretary Kate Forbes arrives for the Stage 3 Debate: Scottish Budget 2022-23 at the Scottish Parliament Holyrood Edinburgh. Picture date: Thursday February 10, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Scotland.Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/PA Wire

Finance secretary says more needs to be done to tackle cost of living crisis Hannah Brown

uPVC windows are problematic in conservation areas

Readers' letters: We need to talk about building regulations By The Newsroom

The new child poverty payment should be doubled within a year say campaigners.

Readers' letters: Child poverty in Scotland is improving By The Newsroom

Campaigners have long called for action to tackle poverty but it is needed now more than ever (Picture: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Constant pressure of poverty can grind the soul – Ewan Aitken Ewan Aitken

Child poverty In Scotland is not inevitable but the result of political choice

Opinion We must invest more to meet poverty targets - Alison Johnstone Alison Johnstone

The hike in payments was only introduced as a year-long measure.

Universal Credit: will benefits be cut in April 2021? Sarah Wilson

One in five children in Edinburgh lives in poverty

How to end poverty in Edinburgh within ten years Ian Swanson