We work in partnership with social housing landlords & private landlords, providing temporary housing to families who are homeless or need support. We also operate tenancy services; allocating housing, repairs & maintenance and rent /service charge collection also bringing empty homes back into use on behalf of local authorities and landlords.
We work with many organisations on a range of issues, in different sectors and areas. We are a dynamic housing organisation and have been involved in the most innovative housing initiatives over the last eight years. We manage on behalf of our local authority partners and social housing and private landlords providing temporary accommodation, working with 33 local authorities across the southeast as well as to 22 private social landlords, health authorities and other agencies.
Our policy is acquire street properties and not properties on large estates or flats located above the third floor. Providing homes where people want to live is our trade mark.
We are in the process of establishing two new schemes: WOMEN In Safe Housing (WISH) and Alternative Imprisonment for Men (AIM). The former will be concerned with providing accommodation for women who are fleeing rape and other kinds of gender-related persecution, such as honour crimes, forced marriage, prostitution and female genital mutilation, the Home Office will not see this as grounds for giving refugee status. If a woman is turned down for asylum she is made destitute and could find herself in a detention centre. Which are effectively prisons and no place for children. When women are detained with their children they face particular stress as they try to protect their children from the adverse effects of living in prison.
AIM will work with voluntary agencies and the home office and would involve tailor- made training programmes for individuals, which would run for 1-3 years. The programmes would combine college courses and apprenticeships and would aim to assist with seeking employment at the end of the course.
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