Scottish Housing Day: Improving home environments and tenant health and wellbeing

The social housing sector supports some of the most vulnerable and socially excluded people in our communities. We are uniquely placed to help reduce health inequalities for people living across Scotland through the provision of safe and warm homes. With more and more housing providers considering how the Internet of Things (IoT) might support improvements in service delivery, a pathfinder project is working hard to show how this all might practically work. 

The Healthier Homes initiative is a four-phased project to understand, test and evaluate if the combination of digital technologies, customer engagement, partnership working, and co-design could lead to positive impacts on home environments and tenant/resident health and wellbeing. Our initiative aligns to a broad range of national agendas such as the Scottish Government’s Housing to 2040 strategy, the National Health and Wellbeing Outcomes Framework for Scotland, energy efficiency standards.  

Adopting IoT introduces a broad range of new considerations for the housing sector, including digital connectivity and architecture, staff skill sets, service redesign and tenant acceptance. Through Healthier Homes, we hope to showcase the successes and highlight the risks of embracing new technologies and show how data can be used for good, for our tenants and our business 

To hear more about the Healthier Homes Initiative, please contact Stephanie Elliot Selliot@sfha.co.uk