The Blog
Read our blog for the latest thought leadership from a variety of key industry and political voices and the Housing Festival team. Never miss a blog - sign up below.
Browse our recent blogs below or, alternatively, use the search function to find something specific.
Themes
- Aquisition
- Bristol
- Bristol diocese
- CSCC
- Christmas
- Church and housing
- Housing Crisis
- Humancentric approach
- Innovation
- Jessie Wilde
- Justlife
- Local authorities
- London
- MMC
- Modular Construction
- One City
- Playbook
- Shelter
- Social Rent Housing Playbook
- Structural deficit
- Temporary Accommodation
- Trauma-informed design
- UK
- affordable homes
- affordable housing
- blog
- case study
- challenge
- change
- children
- climate smart cities challenge
- collective leadership
- culture
- doughnut economics
- economy
- elim housing
- health
- homeless
- homelessness
- housing
- housing association
- housing crisis
- housing first
- impact
- inclusive
- inclusive growth
- industry
- joint working
- leadership
- leaseback model
Case Study: PropTech Simplifying Property Acquisition With Simplyphi
Innovative technology is helping local authorities to find, appraise and acquire homes to reduce homelessness. For example, Hastings are using SimplyPhi’s search technology and project management platform to find, acquire and retrofit 60 homes, as part of their ongoing Housing Programme for Rough Sleepers and Temporary Accommodation.
Is new build the only (or best) option to increase social rent housing stock?
The ecosystem solution outlined in the Social Rent Housing at Pace Playbook is primarily focused on new build, because building social rent homes is the best way to eliminate the structural deficit in the long-term as it increases the net supply of homes. But is new build the only (or best) option to increase housing stock?’
