September 2020 Newsletter
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Author Bio Jessica is a freelance features writer. You can find more of her writing at stories-to-sit-with.com, or on Twitter @Jessica_E_Brown‘ SHM Notes: Headings added.
By: Caroline Duvier @caroline_duvier Over the past half a year or so, I started to read a lot of non-fiction books concerned with our current
By: Dr Gaby Wolferink @drgabywolferink STRIP CLUBS? WHAT? ON A SOCIAL HOUSING WEBSITE? WHAT? WHY? Have I got your attention? I hope so! When I
By: Rose Klemperer @RoseKlemperer The sector waited for the Social Housing Green Paper (the “SHGP”) with bated breath and we were promised it would be
Homefinder UK’s Revive project highlights the lack of understanding by many statutory and voluntary agencies about the specific ethnic, religious and cultural concerns facing women fleeing domestic
By: Sharon Thandi @SharonThandi07 Housing’s ‘diversity problem’ is nothing new and is a subject that has been talked about for a number of years with
By: Raymond McGurk of BRS Technology @BrsTechnology On the surface of it, the recently announced Green Homes Grant seems like great news – eligible homeowners
What is Nudge? Nudge burst into the public consciousness in 2008 with Thaler and Sunstein’s book called, well, ‘Nudge, improving decisions about health, wealth and
By: Leigh Dunbar @Leigh_Dunbar Housing officers all over the country have gone from nipping in and out of tenant meetings and calling in at tenant’s
By: Dr Gaby Wolferink @drgabywolferink The Tree Imagine I was moaning to someone about the massive tree in my back garden blocking out the summer
We continue to invite you to share your stories, expertise, knowledge and ideas with us and other people passionate about the future of social housing.
When we talk of digital exclusion and people not being able to ‘do things digitally’, we often or mostly talk about the people who use our services. But what about the people providing your services; do they know what they’re doing?
By Caroline Duvier @Caroline_Duvier I would argue that the social housing sector is one of the most important public service sectors in the UK, if
This article reflects on how behavioural insights can contribute to better designed financial interventions for low income tenants. This encourages a shift away from seeing poverty as reflective of character flaws to a focus on the context of poverty.
By Dr Gaby Wolferink @drgabywolferink Everyone who knows me knows that in my daily life, apart from administrative and in my twitter handle I’m not
This is the first of our Anonymous contributions from a social housing professional working in the intensive housing management part of a large housing association. The author wants to bring to the forefront some challenges they are facing and hopes to start a recognition and discussion about what housing providers can do to prevent people from falling through the cracks.
By Peter Mekers In The Netherlands we have a long history of social housing organisations since 1852. Just under a 100 years later – in
By Hannah Absalom @HousingHannah Algorithms, segmentation, big data, predictive analytics are buzzwords that sound mysterious and complicated; possible silver bullets to solve some of the
Co-written by staff and tenants of Soha Social housing is unique because it provides affordable secure homes for the huge number of people in our
By Maureen Corcoran Recent press reports show Germany has been much better than the UK in dealing with the Covid –19 virus. From more testing
By Charles Goode As I write from my office, which is my shed in the garden to make the most of the lovely spring weather,
By Dr Gaby Wolferink @drgabywolferink Many housing associations and local councils support, fund and run a variety of community groups in their localities. Among those
This articles shares some findings and asks the reader to dive a bit deeper into a report on Exempt Accommodation that argues that there is a risk that it runs exempt from responsibility.
By Hannah Green @h_green21 On the 3rd February I moved into my own flat after spending 403 days homeless. I stayed on sofas, in hostels,