The social Value of Social Housing

Shelter Scotland have published the latest report on a three-year project to calculate the social value of social housing. The project aims to capture and measure the social value generated through the provision of new social tenancies in newly built, refurbished, and non-refurbished social housing stock in Scotland over a three-year time period.

The research undertaken so far start to provide a better understanding of how social housing tenancies impact positively on individuals, including health, wellbeing, and life circumstances, such as economic and employment status. The report concludes that “…… moving into social housing has a positive impact of the life circumstancesand wellbeing of people and contributes towards social value.”

Thre full report is available here.