- Advice
- Housing provider
Housing Provider
Working with separate housing provider and care provider is recommended. If an issue occurs with either you don’t lose both your care and support at once.
Working with a housing provider:
- Ensures each tenant in the house has a legal tenancy agreement, housing rights and housing related support
- Allows a third party to manage any disputes around housing issues
- Removes the need for families to manage the ongoing maintenance and upkeep of the house
- Can allow you to access higher rates of housing benefit
Many housing providers have some specialist services that work with disabled people.
"Having a decent housing association had made a big difference, we couldn’t have done this without them. They make it all really easy and we are well connected. Particularly around maintenance"
We worked to find a local housing association who shared our values, we didn’t want to work with a national profit making organisation. The Personalisation Agenda was important to us, we wanted to make sure our sons could choose who they live with and have proper housing rights. The housing association has helped make sure everything is in place and done lots of the work for us.
Liaise personally, and preferably by having a meeting, with your identified supportive Housing Association as early as you can in the process as accommodation is the essential component of the set-up. But it can be the hardest to find!
Be prepared to make some compromises about what you want in your ‘ideal’ property as the Housing Association will prescribe what you can actually have!
Resources
The Real Tenancy Test
helps people understand if their housing rights are being respected by services and if they are helping them to live how they want to.
REACH Standards
are a set of voluntary standards that introduce the fundamental principles of Support for LIVING