Here you’ll find our latest news, blogs and publications to view or download, supporting your research, providing insight or developing your knowledge of the sector.
Here you’ll find our latest news, blogs and publications to view or download, supporting your research, providing insight or developing your knowledge of the sector.
This report is part of the National Academy for Social Prescribing Accelerating Innovation Programme and explores how we could accelerate collaboration between social housing and the social prescribing community.
Disabled people are the biggest minority group in the UK with 14.6m people currently registered as disabled. Despite 21% of working adults being classed as disabled the emphasis on disability in social housing still tends to focus predominantly on the over 55s. Here we talk about the impact of this and what more can be done to support.
The Racial Equality Group recently held an online event to discuss the disproportionate impact the cost of living crisis has on social housing residents, especially those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, who are more likely to be on low income.
The Green Skills Project is based in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and focuses on how collaboration in the social housing sector and beyond can provide green skills, training and jobs in local communities to help reach the sector’s Net Zero goals.
When LHC, a not-for-profit procurement framework provider, approached HACT to help them with their ambition to “dramatically increase the social value impact of our projects” and “support our vision to improve lives and places through quality procurement solutions” … well, we couldn’t wait to get started!
Intergenerational England has initiated the creation of an Intergenerational Housing Steering Group (IHSG), joining forces with leading housing organisations HACT, Clarion, Clarion Futures, HousingLIN and Sovereign Network Group (SNG). Recognising the growing importance of intergenerational initiatives across the housing sector, the collaboration aims to spearhead a transformative strategy for widespread acknowledgment and measurement of the tangible impact and benefits.
The hard work and impact of the Retrofit Credits initiative has been recognised again, this time by The Big Issue, as we are included in their list: Changemakers of 2024.