PHASE FOUR: EDUCATE

This is where ‘Social Property Investment’ can begin to directly address affordable housing issues and homelessness at large. With education tailored specifically towards individual recipients, all types of providers and respondents can be led with strategies, systems, techniques and tools, with focus on correlating operators to be working within the same guidelines - and to a minimum standard.

Initial application of methods and subsequent enhancing of this educational content will be undertaken within our mastermind group, with the ‘Housing First Hub’ later acting as our beta-test environment. It will host our community, alongside a wide-range of freely-accessible procedural guidance: templates, forms, guides, resource tools and video learning, as well as up-to-date guidance on ‘Social Property Investment’ strategies, concepts and news.

Phase Four: Educate various events pictured — _{Educational content delivered has blended a combination of classroom learning with site visits, web-based tutorials, Skype
support groups and 1-1 coaching}

‘Social Property Investment’ will consummately disrupt the £9 Billion-a-year ‘Local Housing Allowance’ private property investment marketplace, via the free-sharing of information which is traditionally reserved for a fee-paying audience. Our pilot educational programme – first trialled between 2014 and 2016 - focused purely on empowering philanthropic financial investors and property professionals with a solid social conscience. It provided guidance on topical areas such as:

Due diligence processes;
Legislative requirements;
Building acquisition and design;
Tenant sourcing, screening and assessment;
Welfare benefits, payments and rent
Safeguarding and supporting occupants;
Management and systemisation;
Working in conjunction with external partners.

One highly attractive aspect of the technology interface will be the incorporation of an accreditation, rating and reward system, which will ensure the promotion excellent practice, safeguarding and exclusivity, within a carefully-crafted community. With government and consortium collusion, there is an opportunity to provide a level of regulation, benchmark and an expectation of quality within a totally new and developing section of the British housing market.

Copyright © by Amy.F.Varle, January 2018.
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