More than a dozen homes lying empty in an Edinburgh suburb will be bought up by the council in a bid to secure more affordable accommodation for the city's growing homeless population.
The go-ahead has been given to purchase 23 properties on the Dreghorn Estate after the Ministry of Defence deemed them surplus to its requirements.
The mix of two, three and four-bedroom houses - which are in extremely high demand from families across the capital - will be acquired at a cost of £5.7 million using mostly council funds and some grant funding from the Scottish Government.
