Rethinking Homes Network

A network for people who want to rethink UK social housing. Starting with Empty Homes and Allocations processes.

[Rethinking Homes Network @RethinkingHomes]

Hello, if you are looking for Social Housing Matters, the collaboration ended in early 2022. Website archive is here at https://t.co/7oKI6K5dEN

Account repurposed for a Rethinking Homes Network focused on changing empty homes and allocation processes.

Admin: Hannah Absalom

[Rethinking Homes Network @RethinkingHomes]

Please fill in and help TAROE Trust review it's coms strategy. Do DM TAROE with additional comments if you like. Survey designed to be fast and additional comments are welcome (tho you'll no longer be anonymous!).

[Rethinking Homes Network @RethinkingHomes]

@davidious @actionfrauduk It's definitely convinced this person. Entire evening gone asking lots of difficult questions to try to get them to think and reflect. Up-to-date information from a trusted source would have been a great help.

[Rethinking Homes Network @RethinkingHomes]

@actionfrauduk when will you be updating your romance scammer advice? Been speaking to someone who is convinced the scam is true because they've video called them. Your website advise suggests an avoidance of video calls is a sign of a scam. It's out-of-date.

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

MYTH: Cut back on your Netflix subscription to save for a house deposit.

REALITY: Recent average deposits for first time buyers in London have been as much as £150k.

My generation must stop indulging the fantasy that the majority of young people can save their way to a deposit.

[End Furniture Poverty @EndFurniturePov]

Our research published earlier this week uncovered the scale of furniture poverty in the UK, using the first nationally representative dataset on the subject.

Email [email protected] to join our Webinar on Wednesday at 11am ✉️

[Rethinking Homes Network @RethinkingHomes]

Wrote some reflections for @taroetrust after visiting the @bristolpoverty institute

https://t.co/mzUHMVxg5a

[Rethinking Homes Network @RethinkingHomes]

@bristolpoverty this report will be relevant to your work. @TAROETrust happy to talk about it. Will be in touch about Wednesday Webinars...

[Rethinking Homes Network @RethinkingHomes]

The stat about kids with no beds, actually proper got me angry (740,000!). Let's not #bekind let's #beangry about this unacceptable situation.
Get on at your MP. Write to your landlord. Let's ensure kids have a bed in #England.

[End Furniture Poverty @EndFurniturePov]

1.2 million people in the UK are living without flooring.
760,000 of those live in social housing.
6 million people are living without essential furniture items.

Read about these findings in detail, and much more: https://t.co/fFgh3gpVN0

[Rethinking Homes Network @RethinkingHomes]

@BBC_HaveYourSay regarding carpets getting ripped out. There's a report here that explains some of the reasons why this practice continues https://t.co/0MY4Z5KCnL

[Rethinking Homes Network @RethinkingHomes]

Check out the 'End Furniture Poverty' campaigns latest report. For the first time showing the number of people living without essential furniture items.

https://t.co/BOwP3tdNYa

This is a topic we can do so much better at. Especially in regulated housing.

[Rethinking Homes Network @RethinkingHomes]

@ApteanBen @TAROETrust New tweet with all the links too ever need is up now:-)

[Rethinking Homes Network @RethinkingHomes]

Such a handsy talker! Will share the YouTube link when available...

[Rethinking Homes Network @RethinkingHomes]

Missed the Feeling at Home report launch? We've got you covered. Check out the recording https://t.co/yePxL8tOeL

Find the ground breaking report at https://t.co/0MY4Z5K4yd

Interested in Respect for All/working with TAROE Trust? Drop them a line at  [email protected].

[Rethinking Homes Network @RethinkingHomes]

@ApteanBen Thanks :-) if in linked in please follow the @TAROETrust page. I'm more in it with posting there.

[Rethinking Homes Network @RethinkingHomes]

Housing association/local authority tenant who might have been subject to an affordability check in the last two years?

Get £20 to discuss your experience in an independent research interview with @UniOfYork.

Pls retweet.

https://t.co/Bw5c3v4vQN

#tenantvoice #ukhousing

[Rethinking Homes Network @RethinkingHomes]

@TAROETrust @mgsesrcdtp some work from my thesis and later ESRC IAA grants (Hannah A).

[Rethinking Homes Network @RethinkingHomes]

https://t.co/7EiGVHm6U4

Response to the idea that hope can be hard to maintain in the face of wicked problems. Thank you to the person who messaged with their reflection about this based on the 'home as an emotional place' report.

[Rethinking Homes Network @RethinkingHomes]

@tomemurtha @TAROETrust It certainly is. There's some decent practice and research about homelessness, emotions and home, and then cliff edge once tenured. Scuppers transitions out of homelessness in my pov. Add to that housing precarity is taking on more forms as well. More to say but no space!

[Rethinking Homes Network @RethinkingHomes]

@EndFurniturePov Happy to endorse @EndFurniturePov blueprint for furnished tenancies and their case for the social value of these when needed by tenants.

Our report challenges landlords to reflect on how much Stigma may be informing the lack of furnished tenancies.

[Rethinking Homes Network @RethinkingHomes]

@TAROETrust @LES_UniBham @unibirmingham