

Getting ahead of repairs and prioritising importance will prove invaluable in tenement buildings. However, taking stock of your building and starting to work on management and maintenance issues that may have fallen by the wayside could save you considerable time and money in the future. Managing and maintaining a tenement building can be a daunting task and often it falls to the bottom of a to-do list. The groups involved in Scottish Housing Day have put forward a report on what the focus should be for Government, which will be released on September 14, but what can owners of tenement flats do themselves to play their part in furthering housing sustainability?

It’s an outdated concept in the modern day, but it’s a useful reminder today of what individuals can do as part of a wider effort by the housing sector to ensure the Scottish Government’s focus is firmly on sustainability in the housing sector during this cost-of-living crisis and beyond. The concept of make do and mend was coined during WWII by the British Ministry of Information, designed to help housewives repair, reuse, and reimagine clothes during rationing. Living in a tenement? Jacqueline Omoniyi of Under One Roof explains the part you can play in furthering housing sustainability.
