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Commonweal Housing is a registered charity seeking to make bold experiments in housing. Using social investment from our principal benefactor and other like-minded, forward-thinking organisations, we work to develop innovative housing projects. Find out more about us.
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To mark our 10th anniversary, Commonweal Housing is launching a competition to find new solutions to social injustices. Under the title Starter for 10, the competition offers £10,000 to fund a feasibility study into an area of social injustice with housing being part of the solution.
2016-present
The project aims to provide housing for those with insecure immigration status and are trapped in destitution - denied the opportunity to work and support themselves and unable to access benefits.
2015 - Present
A Programme providing housing on the point of release for women leaving prison to reunite them swiftly with their children.
2007 - Present
We are seeking to test a model of shared housing provision where more advanced clients provide informal, positive, role model peer-support to other clients.
2013 - Present
Five years into our Peer Landlord project, we’ve reached a crucial point; the commencement of the second phase of delivery, up until April 2018. There are thirteen properties up and […]
As part of Commonweal Housing’s 10th Anniversary celebration this year – we launched a new competition Starter for 10 with the prize being £10,000 to fund research or a feasibility […]
When Stonewall Housing approached us last year with a social injustice and a dream of how they wanted to help solve it, we were all ears. They told us that […]
In 2015 Commonweal Housing joined forces with Stonewall Housing and the Big Lottery Fund to fund a study into the current provision of housing and related care and support for […]
Commonweal Housing are delighted to announce Thames Reach as the winners of our Starter for 10 Competition. Starter for 10 was launched by Commonweal Housing offering £10,000 to […]
