With the Tenant Protection Bill’s in-tenancy rent cap and eviction measures due to expire in a matter of weeks, the Scottish Government has proposed an adjudication scheme to ease the transition until a long-awaited Housing Bill comes to pass. Under the proposals, the process for rent adjudica
Homes For Good
After recording an episode of the Scottish Housing News Podcast on the subject of the proposed rent adjudication scheme for the private rented sector, Jimmy Black shares his own experiences.
Homes For Good is the only private rented sector letting agency in Scotland specialising in supporting people on lower incomes in need of housing. This award-winning social business group now has around 560 properties under management. We have also raised £20m through social investment to crea
Lloyds Banking Group and homelessness charity Crisis have joined forces in a new two-year partnership to help tackle the shortage of good quality, affordable homes in Great Britain, which is leaving hundreds of thousands of people trapped in homelessness.
Letting agency Homes for Good has won a prestigious Gold World Habitat Award.
A new report on alternative models of rent control for Scotland has been launched by the Cross Party Group on Housing launched at a meeting in the Scottish Parliament yesterday. During the meeting, Professor Ken Gibb, director of the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE), presented th
Social and Sustainable Capital (SASC) has invested a further £3.5 million in Homes for Good, Scotland's first social enterprise lettings agency.
Homes for Good Investments have been named as a finalist in the 2021 Scottish Home Awards, in the Community Contribution Category. One of three finalists in the category, the organisation was nominated due to a renovation project it undertook, which allowed it to breathe new life into three other pr
Social enterprise letting agency Homes for Good (HfG) and the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership have launched a partnership to address the rising number of empty homes in the west of Scotland through the purchase and letting of empty properties, a fund to refurbish properties, and the recruitmen
Homes for Good and The Wise Group have come together to improve quality and financial inclusion for over 800 private rented sector tenants in Scotland, in a unique partnership. This is the first time ongoing energy efficiency and fuel advice has been offered to tenants within the priv
Homes for Good (HFG) has secured £3 million of investment from Big Issue Invest (BII). The investment allows early stage investor Impact Ventures UK (IVUK) to successfully exit three years early.
CIH Scotland, Homes for Good and the Scottish Association of Landlords (SAL) have jointly published guidance for the private rented sector on how to support tenants and protect rental income during the coronavirus outbreak.
To mark its fourth week of working from home/lockdown, Homes for Good has launched its own Homes for Good Heroes awards which will be presented fortnightly during the current crisis and monthly after that. The first Hero to be nominate
Scotland’s first social enterprise letting agency Homes for Good (HFG) celebrated this year’s International Women’s Day by unveiling its all-female senior management team as part of its ambitious growth plans to grow to 1000 homes within the next four years. (from left) back row: S
Property management social enterprise Homes for Good (HFG) has been shortlisted for three awards by CIH Scotland.