Golden Lane Housing
Golden Lane Housing Southwest London Homefinder service
Golden Lane Housing is a housing charity and was established by Mencap in 1998. It's mission is to provide quality homes around which individuals with a learning disability can build their lives. It was formed to help tackle some of the issues that people with a learning disability face when making choices about where there live, whom they live with and how they wish to live their lives. The nature of GLH?s approach is to start with the individual first rather than simply allocate housing from a list. Using this approach we have successfully supported over 900 people across the country to get the housing they need.
Southwest London Homefinders service was set up by Golden Lane Housing in 2009 and is part funded by the Department for Communities and seven local authorities, however is expected to become self financing in 2011 onwards.
The service works by matching prospective tenants with ethical landlords and offering support and advice to both parties, on an ongoing basis. Thus creating safe access to the private rental sector, across the seven boroughs in Southwest London, it provides people with a learning disability a real choice in where they live.
The service listens to the individual and forms a picture of what they need from their home. Working in conjunction with the clients support network, including friends and family, we assist by helping with budgeting, pricing, property identification, accompanied visits, negotiating tenancy details etc. We also work in partnership with the local authorities and voluntary or private sector systems ensuring that the individual can explore all options open to them.
The Homefinders service will also lease properties directly from private ethical landlords and sublet to individuals/groups. We also use our management letting agency Great Tenants as a matching service directly between landlords and tenants.
Contact
Tel: 0845 604 0046
Email: homefinders@glh.org.uk
Web: www.glh.org.uk/homefinders
