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Housing in Edinburgh – The Next Five Years
Since returning to the City of Edinburgh Council in May, I have learned much about the various housing related challenges we face in Edinburgh and in this guest blog, I would like to set out how the recently elected Council is planning to address those. First and foremost, we want our tenants to have a […]
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Social Media for Landlords? Opportunity Knocks
Social media offers landlords an opportunity to understand tenants like never before. For this to happen we need more landlords to move out of broadcast mode, instead engaging with tenants meaningfully online. Here’s some quick ideas which your landlord can implement this week. Community building and customer service Many landlords have chosen a Facebook Page […]
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Learning to Lead, Creating Community Impact
Struggling to think of examples of good leaders in the world right now? Then you might be happy to hear that you only need to look to our tenants’ groups in Edinburgh to find inspiring leaders… although they may not realise it. Last week we had 16 tenants’ representatives come together to discuss, share and […]
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Your Home, Your Neighbourhood, Your City – November 2016
I had a great day at the annual Tenants’ Conference which took place on Saturday 29th October. This was an opportunity for tenants from all across the city to get together to help develop new ideas for the future of their home, their neighbourhood and their city. The conference was a good opportunity to talk […]
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Your Home, Your Neighbourhood, Your City
Following the success of the first ever Sheltered Housing Conference earlier in the month, we now have the annual Tenant’s Conference to look forward to on Saturday 29th October 2016. Each year, tenants from all across the city get together and share what’s working well, what’s not working so well and how we can improve […]
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Build it and they will come!
Gateside Tenants and Residents Association (GTRA) were crowned Tenants’ Group of the Year at the Tenants Information Service Annual Conference for the work they do in their local community. Bill Walker, Chair of the group explains how they managed to get local people involved in their community. GTRA restarted just over a year ago to […]
