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.

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?’

The shortage of social housing, long waiting lists and numbers of households in Temporary Accommodation, or other unsuitable accommodation, is resulting in higher levels of adversity and trauma amongst future residents. Human-centric design is key to establishing trusted pathways for new social housing delivery. Here, the Changing Futures Bristol partnership unpacks what this means for the design and delivery of new social rent housing.

Over the last 12 months, architects Miranda MacLaren and Polina Pencheva from Morris+Company have been listening to homeless families living in emergency accommodation, to better understand what ‘good’ design looks like. Find out more about their findings, work and human-centric housing design and delivery in this blog in our #SocialRentPlaybook series.