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Impact investment: it cannot be just about the wow …… look at the fairness!

By Rebecca Dillon / December 4, 2015

Housing solutions to social injustice – a phrase I have used countless times since first joining Commonweal back in 2010.  Our strap line continues to say it all for me – housing as part of the solution to bigger, sometimes more intractable problems in people’s lives that mean they are systemically and repeatedly getting the…

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Innovative Investment Report out now

By Rebecca Dillon / November 18, 2014

Our new report ‘Innovative Investment’ (#SocialInvestCH) is out today – Tuesday 25 November. The report argues that social investment should be used to fund Innovative and even untested housing schemes. This timely report comes at a time of growth in the Social Investment sector and of an increasing unaffordable housing market. Yes this may be a more risky…

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