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Finding a place to live
Dorchester housing event
Why housing matters
• Most young adults leave home ...
• … but many young people with learning disabilities don’t
• Better to plan now …• … than have an
emergency move• Housing is the key to
independence and choice for all of us
Finding a place to live
Housing:• Renting • Home ownership• How do you find it?Support• How much• Where from• How do you find it?
Examples• Individual (rented
cluster flat)• Shared housing• Shared ownership• All with family
involvement
Housing options
Rented housing• Social renting
(council or housing association)
• Private renting• Private renting
from family, Trust or charity
Home ownership• Outright ownership• Shared ownership• With govt funding• With family funding
Support options
Commissioned by local authority?
• Less work but may have less choice
Individual budget?• Choose your own
support provider• Or employ staff
direct
Level of support?• Anything from a
few hours a week to 24/7 & 365 days
• Staff work with other residents in shared housing
• 1-1 in individual housing
Housing and support: advantages
• Housing and the support service are separate so you can change one without the other
• You can choose where and how you live, who you live with, and become more independent
• Tenancy, or home ownership, gives rights, responsibilities, a stake in the local community
• You get more money: benefits for housing costs, council tax, living expenses & disability
• Paid work becomes possible if you want to – in rented housing - but problems with ownership options & benefits system
What sort of housing?
Living with others• In shared
supported housing • With a support
tenant • With a family
(family placement, self-contained annexe)
Living on your own• In your own flat,
house or bungalow• In cluster flats or
extra-care (a number of flats together)
• In a dispersed network (like KeyRing)
Housing: sharing or living alone?
Company and friendsHelp from other tenants Staff in the houseOrganised activitiesBUT risk of not getting on well with others, may not be able to choose new tenants
Independence, privacy – your own front doorIn charge – more freedom Individual support tailored to suit needsBUT risk of loneliness, boredom
Support and activities - essential for successful
supported living
College courses
Holidays
Social networks
Worship
Paid work
Voluntary work
Sports, leisure activities
Relationships
What else would you need?
My Housing Option Plan1. Start with the person: ideas for future?
what good at? what need help with? 2. Do they want to move? How soon?3. Who else knows them & can help with
ideas, information? Family? Friends? Professionals? Does everyone agree?
4. Choosing a home: sharing, own front door, owning or renting?
5. Support options – level and types of support based on needs and wishes
6. Writing down the ideas and how to make things happen – who will do what
Housing: rent? buy? area?
• Renting – usually housing associations
• Shared ownership – part-rent, part-buy
• Choice of area – quiet or lively?
• Near: shops, buses?• work, college?• friends, family?
Alison: individual flat in “cluster”
• Self-contained modern flat: bedroom, living room, kitchen and bathroom• Limited hours from on-site support staff for all tenants (Knightstone)• 12 flats in block• Central location• Near shops etc• Tenancy rights
Alison: support service• Service “brokered” by family • Alison and family chose United
Response (new provider SGlos)• New team, 3 core staff• Alison and family involved in
recruitment & training• Flexible contract, average 30
hours a week, annualised hours
• Our choice to have contract with United Response managed by SGlos Council
In her flat and
community
Cooking, shopping Money,
bills
Medication reminders
Visits to doctor, dentist
Support with voluntary work
Social activities
Safety at home and in community
What other help, care or support would you need?
30 hours a week support for:
Housework and managing the flat
Dean: shared house• Brand new four bedroomed
detached house in Portishead.• Golden Lane Housing (Mencap)
Shared house
• Four young men
• All different needs.
• All same sort of age.
Support• Brandon Trust – the 8
parents’ choice• New team, 7 support staff• 4 YP involved in
recruitment• Varied levels of support to
suit individual needs.• One overnight sleep in• Contract managed by
North Somerset Council
In the house and
community
Cooking, shopping Money,
bills
Medication reminders, doctor, dentist
College
Safety …
Support needed for:
Housework and managing the house
Life skills
Sports
Theatre
MusicalsConcerts
ICT
Employment
Train spotting
Home ownership – resale:2-bed older or newer houses
Home ownership – new build
Can be wheelchair accessible
Can be individual or in a group of flats or bungalows together
Home ownership examples
• Andy: autistic spectrum, in shared housing • about to buy his own semi-detached 2-bed
house through Advance (housing association) using HOLD (Home Ownership for people with Long-term Disabilities)
• Pay rent to Advance (Housing Benefit)• Pay mortgage to building society (interest
only) covered by Income Support• Support contract through local authority• 24/7 support 1-1 reducing at night over
time
Home ownership examples
• Jilly: physical disablility and communication needs, uses wheelchair
• in respite care after being made homeless when landlord of private rented shared house gave notice
• about to buy her own new-build 2-bed flat through local housing association using HOLD
• Rent and mortgage as for Andy• Employing own PAs with Individual Budget