Meeting description: Sally addressed the panel and audience at the fringe meeting with the aim of informing them that continued investment in housing is vital and how housing associations and co-ops play an important role across Scotland. Areas highlighted within this include: the wider social benefit of investment by housing associations into their communities the need for a tenure neutral approach in the post-2021 housing programme to ensure we are meeting a range of needs wants and aspirations the importance of community regeneration the need to support innovation in energy to meet the rural challenges when it comes to fuel poverty and the need for more integrated communities where older people are not separated out. SFHA also made the case for continued support for people who have been homeless the importance of linking housing health and social care and for more work to be done on better housing for varying need.
Topic label: Housing