Our Current Project Preference Areas 2012/2013

Trustees have startegic target that projects supported by Comonweal will be

  • Filling a gap in existing provision
  • Challenging a social injustice
  • Providing a housing solution 

Commonweal Housing puts a premium on new and innovative solutions.

With limited staff and other resources, Commonweal Housing seeks to focus its efforts and also wishes to maintain, wherever possible, a balanced portfolio of projects seeking solutions across a range of different social injustices.  Therefore, on a regular basis (no less than every two years), the Trustees will review and publicise its project preference areas.  It is stressed that these are ‘preferences’ rather than exclusive unequivocal lists.Commonweal Housing is interested in receiving proposals that may not fall neatly in to the areas noted below but which can demonstrate that they meet the Trustees overall target of filling a gap in existing provision.

 As an illustration of potential areas of interest for the coming 12 to 24 months, Commonweal Housing has identified the following as areas of social injustice and therefore possible areas for future projects:

  • The housing needs of ex-Service personnel, especially those with issues around alcohol misuse and / or other support needs relating to physical or mental trauma;
  • Women with housing and support needs due to fleeing forced marriages
  • Housing needs of severely overcrowded,  multi-generational households, especially with adult children;
  • Those escaping gang related activity and injustices.
  • Care leavers and their preparation for adult and / or independent living;
  • Trial tenancies linked in with apprenticeships or other structured employment or training programmes;
  • Single homeless people moving on successfully from hostel accommodation;
  • Medium term leasehold options and equity build-up opportunities;
  • The affordability of housing.

 

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