Alliance for Housing Justice’s Post

 Alliance for Housing Justice breaks down the concept of #SocialHousing and how it can be the answer to America's deepening housing crisis. Watch and join us in ensuring housing is built for everyone, and designed so nobody’s left behind:

Research published today by the National Housing Federation and Shelter reveals the economic and social benefit of building 90,000 new social homes, leading to indirect benefits to wider society of £31.4 billion. We need a long-term #PlanForHousing with funding to build a generation of new #SocialHomes. Read the report 👉 https://lnkd.in/exMxZyUf

Unlock social impact and stable returns! North East landlords, let's discuss social housing opportunities. Book a call today. 🏡 #HousingImpact

Social Housing is something to be proud of, and we should demand our government to commit to ongoing funding to build and upgrade. What an opportunity we have, to create sustainable homes for future generations. But ignore it, and it'll be lost forever. #UKhousing #SocialHousing #MadeInSocialHousing

I also grew up in a council estate "Successful treatment of the psychological effects of early life trauma requires attention to not only what happened the survivor but also to what did not happen. Early life trauma involves prolonged, recurring abuse, which is generally coupled with neglect. The survivor must try to contend with the impact of abuse, while lacking the developmental learning that comes from having had a secure attachment figure" Tal Ashrachan, Carla Bernardes and Judith Herman, Cambridge University Press 2010 from The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease; The Hidden Epidemic Ed Ruth A. Lanius, Eric Vermetten and Claire Pain "Children across the globe are exposed to these different types of adversities and others. For many children, their experiences turn into trauma, bleeding them of purpose, meaning, and desire. For some children, like LeBron, they meet these experiences with resilience, propped up by their biology and community" Hauser, Marc D 2024 Vulnerable Minds. Penguin Publishing Group. "Critical consciousness is the ability to critically analyze societal inequities and to develop the motivation and agency to promote social change" Developing Critical Consciousness in Youth 2023 Developing Critical Consciousness in Youth Contexts and Settings Edited by Erin B. Godfrey New York University Luke J. Rapa Clemson University. "One well-known problem across psychology is the disproportionate use of WEIRD (Western, educated, from industrialised, rich, and democratic countries) participants. Roberts et al. (2020) examined more than 26,000 research articles published in selected journals between 1974 and 2018. They found that only 5% of the publications examined race and for cognitive psychology articles specifically, this percentage dropped to 0.1%. While we might like to think that cognitive processes are universal, they are in fact often shaped by nurture as well as by nature. As Roberts et al. point out “a handful of studies published in top-tier cognitive journals make clear that cognitive processes, such as auditory processing, categorization and memorization, do indeed vary as a function of racialized experiences” (p. 1298). The research community needs to do more to ensure that the right research questions are addressed" Ball, Linden J.; Butler, Laurie T.; Sherman, Susan M.; St Clair-Thompson, Helen 2024 Cognitive Psychology in a Changing World (BPS Core Textbooks Series)Taylor&Francis. "Historically, trauma studies have neglected vulnerable populations, as well as the experience and aftermath of trauma in non-Western cultures. Although art and literature are replete with descriptions of posttrauma reactions in non-Western countries devastated by war, genocide, and other geopolitical conflicts, it is unclear from these accounts if these reactions map neatly onto current Westernized definitions of ASD&PTSD."  The Oxford Handbook of Traumatic Stress Disorders (Oxford Library of Psychology) 2022

I was #MadeInSocialHousing. In 1976, my father's business, which made space heaters for shipyards and hangers, went bankrupt due to the oil crisis. My parents lost their bungalow and we ended up living in a very small caravan for six month. Eventually, we got a council house in rural Dorset. It was one of a row of eight semidetached houses built in 1900 originally as accommodation for farm labourers. I lived there from age 5 through to leaving home at 18. Social housing isn't just estates in the middle of big towns or cities. It isn't just needed in towns or cities either. Rural social housing is just as important, especially as in many villages and hamlets, locals are priced out of the market by incomers. People want to stay near their families, friends, their workplaces, and that means we need social housing options everywhere. No one should have to move an hour away from their children's schools because that's the closest social housing option, as recently happened to a friend of mine. We need more social housing to tackle the housing crisis. We also need to end landlordism and second homes. No one should have a second home until everyone has a first home.

Here is a scalable solution for social housing, our "inclusive" model. "Speed to market "is the market opportunity for advanced modular construction. The Thrive Alliance has over 100,000 major urban reference projects worldwide. Our "Thrive Alliance" Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) in Australia and internationally is made from renewable plantation forest trees. CLT=stored carbon capacity is up to 40,000 inclusive "residential grade" midrise apartments per year, targeting the "Essential Workers" and "Baby boomers" "Co-Living" including "Social Housing" on a scale (including disability workers) across Australia, including Regional Australia, built in up to 75% less time than current custom construction methods, in excellent designs, detailing and finishes with almost zero waste of valuable building materials. The concept below in CLT is a walkable, inclusive urban village with a sense of community where people can look out for each other near Railway Stations, Tram stops, Jobs, shopping, Schools, Hospitals, and amenities. https://lnkd.in/gWyWuHD

What a brilliant campaign by Shelter at a time we so desperately need more social homes. But it’s not just the numbers - as the film says “our stories are written in the places we live” and for the thousands of children living in temporary accommodation, and the many more in unsuitable homes, what life stories will they be able to write? Social housing gives them a chance of a better, more secure, healthier future. As a sector, I know many of us are proud to say we were made in social housing and I hope we can have the chance to help future generations be able to say the same #madeinsocialhousing #homelessness #socialhousing #temporaryaccommodation #housingcrisis #affordablehousing

I was #MadeInSocialHousing! I get so sick of the view that social housing is some kind of safety net for the 'weakest' in society. There are so many reasons why families or individuals want to choose not to private rent or buy. A well functioning society should have quality and easily available social housing solutions for anyone who wants it ... as a stopgap or for life. https://lnkd.in/e2YPXua9

Building more social housing IS the answer to the housing crisis and we must ensure these are built sustainably if we are going to also tackle the climate crisis