UN-World Habitat Awards Gold Winner 2023. Unique, Scottish letting agency meeting landlords' needs, helping tenants find the right home. #socent
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What an absolute honour - and a resounding endorsement of our work showing just how the private rented sector is a vital supply of homes for people who need them. Thank you @WorldHabitat ❤️ – at Glasgow, Scotland
🏆An innovative organisation in #Glasgow which has transformed empty homes in the city & housed 1,000 people on low incomes into high-quality homes has today been announced as the winner of a prestigious Gold World Habitat Award for 2023.
Find out more 🎇bit.ly/WHA2023GOLDWINNERGLAS…
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💬A brilliant session on support for First Time Buyers at @theSNP conference.
🏠This is of particular interest to me as a FTB, so was able to share with the panel my perspective and ask questions, but mainly stated more education is needed to understand the house buying process
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Rise of the good landlords - @BigIssue.
@HomesForGood, an organisation we backed with a £3 million investment, is one of those. Read more about their work and hear from their founder, Susan Aktemel, below 👇
bigissue.com/news/housing/go…
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What an absolute treat to welcome #wise100 to Glasgow today - The home of social enterprise 🏠❤️ Huge congratulations to all the brilliant winners - you are a total inspiration ⭐️ #socent
NEW: WISE100 Women in Social Enterprise 2025 - Award winners revealed
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#WISE100 | @SocComCap | #socent
We’re delighted to be working with @Glasgow_CU to create more homes in the private rented sector for people who really need them. A pioneering investor who shares our vision and values. #housing #glasgow #socent
We’re proud to announce a pioneering partnership with @HomesForGood, Scotland's first social enterprise lettings agency, to tackle housing inequality in Greater Glasgow!
Through a landmark £2.4M loan, it will provide up to 35 affordable homes👉 bit.ly/49no6gu
We’ve been working away on this for a while, so it’s great to share the news! #socent #investment #homes
homesforgood.org.uk/homes-fo…
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NEW: Scottish government backs social enterprise to ‘influence and inspire’ new community wealth building push
Read more: pioneerspost.com/news-views/…
##socent #SocEntSummit24
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To celebrate #WEW2024, we are hosting a panel discussion featuring @susanaktemel @HomesForGood, Jo Chidley @BeautyKitchen, @_EvelynMcDonald @ScottishEDGE & Gillian Fleming @MintVentures
📅Wednesday 30 Oct @ 5:30pm
➡️Register here: tinyurl.com/we3010
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Reinstating social housing investment ASAP, redrafting the housing bill to stop the exodus of investment for new build & seeing our 250,000 PRS landlords as the vital housing partners they are, balancing support and accountability are my top 3 to do’s
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John Swinney urged by campaigners to wipe out housing cuts - Scotland’s deepening housing emergency is a national scandal & reversing the savage cut to the housing budget is vital to preventing record breaking h’ness numbers rising ever further dailyrecord.co.uk/news/polit…
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Hearing @JohnSwinney & @_KateForbes state eradicating child poverty & stimulating the economy as top priority - music to my ears. Home is the foundation our children need. A new government = a new opportunity to put housing front & centre @S_A_Somerville @PaulMcLennan7
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I’m 100% with @shelterscotland - as long as children live in temporary accommodation & overcrowded housing conditions, child poverty will persist. With quality housing, health, attainment, economic growth, everything lifts. As @SirTomhunter said - housing must be at the centre.
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Thanks @lewis_goodall for this searing account of life in temporary accommodation.
Please keep covering the housing and homelessness crises, and giving a voice to those directly impacted.
This is not inevitable and there are political solutions.
NEW: Latest @TheNewsAgents Investigates - Britain’s hidden homeless children
Nearly 140,000 kids in Britain are now homeless, in so-called “temporary accommodation”. We went to a school where half of the kids don’t have a home to call their own.
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It feels like a proper Skylight centre now! The signage recently went up at our new centre in Aldgate. Our new home was refurbished thanks in part to @PostcodeLottery players who've helped make it a welcoming place for people taking their first steps out of homelessness ❤️
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A day in the life of @HomesForGood expansion - a sneak peak of the first @GoodPlaceLet London office, & the drive back from signing up our first South of Scotland homes. Brick Lane to the Borders - we’re coming to make private renting better ❤️ #homes #socent – at East, England
Another one of our transformations hits the news! Thank you @GlasgowCC for featuring our work in the Empty Homes Strategy ❤️
Empty homes provide a fast, central solution to our housing shortage when investment in new builds is declining #HousingCrisis #homelessness #glasgow – at Hackney, London
Glasgow's Empty Homes Strategy has brought more than 1700 empty homes in the city back to productive use.
More info 👉 ow.ly/F2Ic50Rm9ek
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It should not be govt policy to arrest people simply because they do not have a roof over their head. We would urge the Prime Minister @RishiSunak and the Home Secretary @JamesCleverly to listen to their colleagues calls and drop these punitive measures. bit.ly/3TIX8Zc
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Annual rent increases in Scotland are higher than London, landlords selling = reducing supply, homelessness increasing inc rough sleeping in Scottish cities and @scotgov is in denial about impact of legislation. Absolutely predictable consequences. – at Glasgow, Scotland
There’s bad policy and then there is monumentally stupid policy. Rent controls are the latter. Naturally the Scottish government intends to impose rent controls and destroy the rented property sector.
thetimes.co.uk/article/a1ee7…
We’ve created a very special joint venture with @crisis_uk - @GoodPlaceLet bringing our unique letting agency model to #London - help us find our superstar, to make private renting better for everyone ❤️
#socent #housingmarket #home #letting
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It great to join @ScotHousingNews to discuss why Glasgow City Council and other councils have declared a housing emergency and more importantly the steps we are taking to address this. Have a listen at the link below 👇
scottishhousingnews.com/arti…
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🏆There are now just 6 days to go until entries can be submitted to the #WorldHabitatAwards
If you are unsure whether to apply or want more information, be sure to check out our FAQs ▶️ bit.ly/WHAwardsFAQs
or start your application▶️ bit.ly/2025Participate
