SFHA requests members' case studies on Universal Credit to inform future lobbying.
There has for some time run monthly surveys of of members in an attempt to gauge the impact of Universal Credit on housing association and cooperatives and their tenants. It is now additionally asking members to provide case studies where there have been significant issues in the way individual cases have been dealt with.
Housing associations and co-operatives are subject to requests under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004. SFHA, in conjunction with TC Young, produced a briefing in 2015 regarding these requirements, and has highlighted a case study from within the sector of dealing with EIR requests in practice.
A webinar is being held on Friday October 28th on the subject of making effective use of the Knowledge Hub across the frontline financial inclusion sector.
SFHA Member Forums are one of the ways SFHA supports members. SFHA members who offer supported housing met on the 13 March to discuss key issues.
Since 2021, Changeworks has been working with Cairn Housing Association on its EESSH (Energy Efficiency Standard for Social Housing) and net zero strategies.
Changeworks encouraged Melville Housing Association to take advantage of the economies of scale of the works going on in their area to provide efficiency measures for their tenants at a reduced cost.
Changeworks is delivering this work for the Scottish Government, via ClimateXChange.
Changeworks has provided its Net Zero Pathways wrap-around support to help the housing association to define its stock improvement strategy to align with net zero targets.
The team at Housing Insight has rolled out a third iteration of RentsConnect, the arrears management module within PanConnect.
Changeworks is working with the City of Edinburgh Council to reduce carbon emissions whilst helping to alleviate fuel poverty.
CPL Software are consultants and advisers to the property factoring and block management industries.
