Participatory budgeting and housing

A guide and introduction for social housing providers to integrate PB processes to social housing projects.

This report summarises the learning from many years of undertaking Participatory Budgeting (PB) within social housing, whether it be Housing Associations, Council Housing, Cooperative or Tenant management organisations.

PB Partners have supported a wide range of PB processes focussed on Housing Associations and Neighbourhood Management, including most of the early pilots in England. Such as within the Acorns Neighbourhood Management project in Lincolnshire shown on the front of this report. 

More recently we have been working with TPAS Scotland, the Tenant Participation Advisory Service for Scotland. This has included a number of masterclasses and learning events. This work, as well as our engagement with individual local Housing Associations in Scotland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales, and international experiences we have researched has led to this briefing. We believe it will be a useful guide and introduction for all social housing providers wishing to engage with tenants and their wider community through the best practice in PB. 

Source: Shared Future
Author information: Jez Hall, Alan Budge

Year of publication: 2016