{"id":160719,"date":"2026-04-07T10:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=160719"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:44:26","slug":"20-schemes-benefit-from-social-housing-innovation-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/20-schemes-benefit-from-social-housing-innovation-fund\/160719\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a32m Social Housing Innovation Fund backs new pilot projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a32m will fund 20 innovative schemes across England to resolve social housing issues faster, including the use of new AI tools to improve support for tenants<\/h2>\n<p>Thousands of social housing residents will be given more control as part of a new government drive to get landlords to listen and give underrepresented tenants a voice.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of April, 20 new digital and on-the-ground projects will be in place for a year-long trial period to involve tenants in important decisions and resolve the issues they are most concerned about: ignored repairs, poor updates, slow responses, and being bounced between services.<\/p>\n<p>The projects include new AI assistance for social housing, a \u2018living room on wheels\u2019 for chats with housing officers and a national online hub for shared ownership.<\/p>\n<p>A full list of the projects and allocated funding can be found below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Belonging Begins Here (BBH): Connecting our Communities. Accent Group. \u00a3120,000.<\/li>\n<li>Trusted Voices: A Council of Elders Model for Refugee Tenant Engagement. Ashley Community &amp; Housing Ltd. \u00a376,442.<\/li>\n<li>Ermine Community Partnership. Lincoln City Council. \u00a3104,049.<\/li>\n<li>Connected Neighbours: New Models for tenant-landlord engagement. Clarion Housing Group. \u00a3119,110.<\/li>\n<li>Our Homes. Leeds City Council. \u00a3119.371.<\/li>\n<li>Hidden Voices to be Heard. Loconomy Ltd. \u00a3120,000.<\/li>\n<li>Amplifying Survivor Voices \u2013 Domestic Violence &amp; Violence Against Women and Girls Residents. London Borough of Hillingdon. \u00a3120,000.<\/li>\n<li>Tenant Board Member Academy: Building Leadership from Within. Manningham House Association Limited. \u00a370,000.<\/li>\n<li>The Tenants\u2019 Voice. National Communities Resource Centre Limited. \u00a3113,631.<\/li>\n<li>Building Safety Resident Engagement at Scale. Newham Council. \u00a3120,000.<\/li>\n<li>YouNG Networkers. Nottingham Community Housing Association. \u00a398,889.<\/li>\n<li>A National Voice for Shared Owners. The Places Foundation (led by Shared Ownership Resources). \u00a3120,000.<\/li>\n<li>Richmond Community Ambassadors \u2013 Making a difference locally. London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. \u00a3102,316.<\/li>\n<li>Virtual Voices: Enhancing Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Engagement Through Accessible Communication. Rooftop Housing Association. \u00a375,500.<\/li>\n<li>The G15 Residents\u2019 Group: A Model for Strategic Resident Involvement. Southern Housing (led by G15 Resident Group). \u00a370,000.<\/li>\n<li>The LGBTQ+ Housing Pledge: tenant-led change in social housing. Stonewall Housing Association. \u00a395,250.<\/li>\n<li>Improving resident scrutiny. Together Housing. \u00a3103,340.<\/li>\n<li>Breaking the stigma: Stronger scrutiny in social housing. Vico Homes. \u00a372,368.<\/li>\n<li>Front room on wheels. Wigan Borough Council. \u00a370,000.<\/li>\n<li>Wythenshawe Enabled \u2013 Powered by Difference. Wythenshawe Community Housing Group. \u00a395,900.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Social housing is seeing a government overhaul<\/h3>\n<p>This fund falls alongside new legislation, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/millions-of-tenants-safe-from-black-mould-through-awaabs-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Awaab\u2019s law<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/government-announces-affordable-and-social-housing-package\/158755\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social and Affordable Housing Programme worth \u00a339bn.<\/a> The Social and Affordable Housing Programme is a package that will provide funding for councils and housing providers to give financial flexibility and cut costs.<\/p>\n<p>Housing secretary Steve Reed said: \u201cEvery new social home means one less family stuck on a housing waiting list. Building more social housing is crucial to fixing the housing crisis for good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that\u2019s only part of the story. We\u2019re also driving up the quality of social housing so they\u2019re well insulated and damp-free to keep families safe and cut their energy bills in the years ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m calling on everyone who has a part to play to build, baby, build.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a32m will fund 20 innovative schemes across England to resolve social housing issues faster, including the use of new AI tools to improve support for tenants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":160720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[276,944,173264,570],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-160719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-planning-construction-news","8":"tag-government","9":"tag-landlords","10":"tag-repair-remediation","11":"tag-social-housing"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u00a32m Social Housing Innovation Fund backs new pilot projects<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u00a32m will fund 20 innovative schemes across England to resolve social housing issues faster, including the use of new AI tools to improve support for tenants\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/20-schemes-benefit-from-social-housing-innovation-fund\/160719\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u00a32m Social Housing Innovation Fund backs new pilot projects\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Social Housing Innovation Fund is allocating \u00a32m to 20 projects designed to get tenants homes fixed more quickly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/20-schemes-benefit-from-social-housing-innovation-fund\/160719\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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