Impartial residing professional gives properties to ease Edinburgh’s emergency

TEN SPECIALIST properties have been handed over to the Metropolis of Edinburgh Council to assist it tackle its housing disaster.

Blackwood Properties and Care has provided up the properties to help the Council, which is within the midst of a profound housing scarcity.

As a specialist in offering properties which allow these with disabilities or age-related situation to dwell as independently as potential, Blackwood has greater than 1500 properties throughout Scotland.

Doug Moyes, Director of Buyer Service at Blackwood stated: “We’ve got a small variety of vacant properties in Edinburgh in the meanwhile, so when the town introduced it was struggling a housing emergency, we instantly made these obtainable to assist.

“We respect it is a comparatively small quantity, however when there’s a housing emergency, each obtainable property could make an enormous distinction to the lives of these most badly affected.

“We’re happy that our lengthy and robust working relationship with Edinburgh Council has enabled us to show this round so rapidly and sit up for seeing new tenants within the properties.”

Blackwood is famend as Scotland’s most tech-focused housing specialist, deploying cutting-edge know-how to assist its prospects to dwell independently. With 600 workers throughout Scotland, the charity’s headquarters are in Edinburgh.

Eight of the ten properties handed over to the town council are specifically tailored properties for wheelchair customers or different folks with mobility points – and may very well be ideally suited for potential tenants being discharged from hospital or with different emergency wants.

Blackwood will work intently with the Council’s Entry to Housing staff to make sure the properties go to acceptable tenants, thereby liberating up properties elsewhere within the housing chain to assist ease Edinburgh’s burgeoning homelessness issues.

Earlier this month (NOV) Edinburgh formally declared a housing emergency, changing into the primary metropolis in Scotland to take action. The capital has 5000 households in momentary lodging, the very best quantity in Scotland.

Jane Meagher, Edinburgh’s Housing Convener, referred to as for an emergency motion plan, looking for pressing funding from the Scottish Authorities to assist meet “extreme challenges”. The Council cited document homelessness numbers, a extreme scarcity of social rented properties and rocketing non-public hire charges.

Councillor Jane Meagher, Housing, Homelessness and Honest Work Convener, stated: “We very a lot respect the provide of those 10 properties, which suggests we can rapidly transfer tenants with mobility wants into extra appropriate lodging. The Council has labored instantly with Blackwood over quite a lot of years, particularly as regards to delayed hospital discharge, and we’re grateful for this help in gentle of the distinctive housing pressures throughout the metropolis. All of us must work collectively to deal with Edinburgh’s housing emergency.”

The ten properties being supplied by Blackwood are in Craigmount, Abbeyhill and Portobello. The specialist properties have options together with moist room loos and adaptable kitchens. Two of the properties are classed as basic housing.

Many Blackwood properties function its CleverCogs know-how which is personalised and hyperlinks customers to care and well being providers, residence automation, native info, leisure, and video entry to household and associates. The CleverCogs digital system lets customers customise it to go well with their life.

As Scotland’s most tech-focused housing supplier, its Blackwood Home design information – developed in partnership with architects Lewis and Hickey – is the gold customary for accessible housing.

Over the following 5 years Blackwood goals to construct 400 such properties, that may adapt to tenants’ future wants. Every could be tailored to incorporate a number of advantages akin to raise entry, remotely managed automated features, and digital care and housing methods.

The housing specialist places prospects on the coronary heart of every little thing it does, and their satisfaction is essential to Blackwood’s success. As a contemporary, supportive employer it additionally offers people with pathways in direction of reaching lengthy and rewarding careers in roles that make a constructive distinction.

For extra info, go to: https://www.blackwoodgroup.org.uk/