My Notable Property Person this week is a bit of a magician – he achieves the impossible by providing ‘voidless’ lets to landlords and quality accommodation to needy tenants. I wrote about his company Housing Action a while back, but here is his story.
1. Please introduce yourself. Say a bit about yourself and [...]
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Roberta Ward – Notable Property Persons in their own words
Our Notable Property Person today is no stranger to the Landlord Law Blog – Roberta Ward who writes the excellent My Property Mentor blog. Here she tells her story.
1. Please introduce yourself. Say a bit about yourself and your company
HI I am Roberta Ward and my company – My Property Mentor started life [...]
Crisis – Charity of the month (March 2010)
Crisis is the national charity for single homeless people. They are dedicated to ending homelessness by delivering life-changing services and campaigning for change.
Services include :
employment services help get more single homeless people back into meaningful, sustainable employment
education through training and employment centres, offering practical and creative workshops in a supportive and inspiring environment together with [...]
Nightstop (Greenwich and Lewisham) – Charity of the month (January 2010)
Greenwich and Lewisham Nightstop is committed to challenging youth homelessness.
The project tackles homelessness in two ways; firstly by providing emergency accommodation for young homeless people in the homes of volunteers on a one-night-at-a-time basis; secondly by challenging homelessness proactively through an education and outreach programme. The web-site has a video with more information about [...]
Centrepoint – Charity of the month (January 2009)
Centrepoint is a charity which for 40 years has been helping homeless young people in London, and more recently in the North East. Young people are given temporary accommodation, and are then helped to sort themselves out. The aim is that those helped will then move on and be able to live [...]
Shelter – Charity of the Month (December 2008)
Shelter is a great force for good in this country and thousands of tenants and homeless people will be forever grateful to it for its help.
As they say on their web-site “Shelter believes everyone should have a home. We help people find and keep a home. We campaign for decent housing for all”.
They offer [...]
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Housing charity Housing Action provides voidless letting solution
I attended a landlords forum meeting last night co-hosted by a brilliant company called Housing Action. They are a housing charity offering an extraordinary service for landlords in the East Anglia area.
Housing Action are a registered charity who have been around since 1989. They aim to re-house and support individuals and families in need, and [...]
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