Scottish Federation of Housing Associations’ Post

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Making sure that people have got everyone's got a warm, safe, secure, high quality home is probably the biggest difference that we can make to people's lives. Quite a few years ago now, I found myself in the very unfortunate position of not having a home. Linthouse Housing Association offered me a lovely flats and Hutton Drive. I loved my flat. I loved this community, I loved living here. It was from that flat that I was able to correct the mistakes that I could. Just rebuild my life again. Beyond providing the bedrock of a great home, which is essential to everyone's life, housing associations do so much more. Once you fix housing, you fix so many other things, employment opportunities and your educational outcomes, your physical and mental health. Because I am comes from different country, I'm Polish. I don't want to feel alone. I would like to feel connected. I know I have young kids. I would like to know what the future hold for them prospect is there. I I could say is the best landlord ever because. Any events happen in the local area quite often. Prospects send us a message, get the information what's going on and where. It's hard really to describe how much better it is. Until such times you're actually living in it and you think, well, this is now normal. We've gone from having night storage radiators, which was really expensive to run to this fan dabby dozy air source heat pumps with solar panels and Tesla batteries, and so that's reduced our expense for eating the houses. By a huge amount, it's like. What is Steven? So it's really been very exciting. Beyond providing a home, housing associations tackle poverty and equality everyday, it tackle climate change and they provide homes on an ongoing basis and that's absolutely essential for Scotland as a country and for the people who live in it. It's not only about you have roof over their head and paid the money for it. No, they they try to connect with people, yes, especially like the people coming from abroad. Climate change is a huge topic and it's very, very important for housing associations in Scotland to put in innovative schemes. Right now we are at Cromdale Square, which is Linthouse housing associations newest development, one of our proudest achievements ever. I mean, if you just look around these, these homes are are beautiful. It's affordable, it's safe and it's comfortable. With good housing you can be the best version of yourself. It's not just a roof over your head, it's it's your lifes, opportunities.