3. It used to be so easy…
1860 1910 1960
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4. It used to be easy…
2010
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5. But now…
2010
X X X
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6. What are you are trying to achieve? How
does it relate to your mission?
• Improvements in
individual wellbeing?
• Increased community
stability and resilience?
• Economic growth
• Sustainability?
• Tackling homelessness
and overcrowding?
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7. Making the case for the housing sector
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8. Quality of evidence in sector weak
Public sector,
ademics moving
to Maryland
Evaluation scale.
Discounting low
quality evidence.
Not clear that
compatible with
relatively simplistic
current approaches to
pturing value in housing
ctor.
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9. No clear framework for exploring these
issues
“At least 30 differing
approaches to
collecting &
demonstrating
social value in
housing sector”
Source: Snapshot survey conducted by HACT,
Uni of Birmingham in March 2012
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10. Critically, little or no evidence around the
social value of core business
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11. Proving social value going to be
increasingly important…
…traditional SROI reporting won’t cut it
any more
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12. A new model needed
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13. A possible way through
Wellbeing valuation
New approaches to
assessing value in terms
of changes in subjective
wellbeing – massive
potential for housing
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14. HACT research: Establishing the wellbeing
impact of housing
Generating methodology and
metrics for social value of:
-a home
-different tenures
-maintenance and home
improvement
-non-housing community
investment
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16. How might it all work?
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17. Priorities going forward
- Further refining the metrics
- Building the tool set to use and
understand them
- Modeling exchequer impacts,
local economic impact alongside
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