Landlord of supported housing projects and move on flats
- Improved Mental Health Outcomes: Supported housing helps reduce stress, anxiety, and depression by providing a stable, safe living environment.
- Better Sleep & Physical Health: Stable housing reduces overcrowding and exposure to damp or unsafe conditions, which can improve sleep and physical health—both closely linked to mental wellbeing.
- Reduced Hospital Admissions: Access to supported housing can prevent mental health crises and reduce the need for inpatient care.
- Increased Independence: Supported housing enables individuals to live more independently while still receiving tailored support.
- Improved Tenancy Sustainment: With support in budgeting, self-care, and community living, individuals are more likely to maintain their accommodation long-term when they move on.
- Enhanced Social Skills & Relationships: Therapeutic communities and shared housing models promote peer support and reduce isolation.
- Better Community Engagement: Supported housing encourages participation in local services and activities, fostering a sense of belonging.
- Cost-Effective Care: It offers a more affordable alternative to long-term hospital stays or emergency interventions.
Impacts for Ready Steady Rent:
- Project Outcomes and Health Foundation (THF) stated that investing in housing support for vulnerable people helps keep them healthy. For every £1 invested £2 of benefit through costs avoided to public services including care, health, and crime.
- Homelessness also has a human cost. The distress of lacking a settled home can cause or intensify social isolation, create barriers to education, training, and paid work, and undermine mental and physical health.
- Where we live is more than a roof over our heads. It is a HOME where people can grow and flourish. It is a place where people feel safe and comfortable.
- It protects learners from future instances of homelessness by teaching them what to look out for in a property, their rights, and responsibilities, and where they can get advice and support. Reduction/Prevention of cyclical homelessness.
- More confidence in dealing with personal debt (including rent arrears) and hence evictions
- Improved awareness of managing self and accommodation
- Increased likelihood of maintaining accommodation
- Raising attendees’ confidence and awareness of who to ask if they need support/help
- Reduction/Prevention of cyclical homelessness
