Working with expert housing partners, Resonance’s homelessness property funds provide people facing housing crisis with decent homes alongside specialist support enabling them to start creating positive futures for them and their families.

Currently, over 104,000 households are living in emergency accommodation, 62% of which have children living in them, and over 10,000 people are sleeping rough.

Living in temporary accommodation often takes its toll on peoples’ mental and physical health, their wellbeing and on their ability to secure meaningful employment, and to access support services they might need.

Whereas living in a permanent home provides people with safety, security and stability, enabling them to be connected to their local community, to find and secure decent work and access services, and ultimately, to flourish.

National Homelessness Property Fund 2 (NHPF2) and Response

NHPF2 is one of Resonance’s homelessness property funds. It is working with ten expert housing partners across the UK to provide a housing solution for people experiencing homelessness.

One of its housing partners is Oxford-based charity, Response. They provide a person-centred, recovery-focused model for people with mental health and complex needs, enabling them to live independently within their local community.

The fund is buying ten shared homes and seventeen one-bedroom flats in and around Oxford for Response. These homes will provide around forty-seven people facing homelessness, rough sleeping and mental health issues, with a stable and affordable home of their own. And this partnership – thanks to investment from Oxford City Council – is also proving essential in the countywide Settled Oxfordshire project which provides a housing-led approach for people experiencing homelessness and rough sleeping in the area.

In our video below, Luke Winstone, Settled Oxfordshire Manager, talks about one of Response’s tenants, who has been housed by the fund and supported by the charity, in Oxfordshire. The tenant's new home is already making a difference to her, providing a solid foundation from which she has been able to find security and employment.

Luke also talks about the process of working with the Resonance team to source the right properties in the right locations to meet the needs of tenants. This means ensuring properties are within local communities with good access to services, support and local transport links.

How the fund works

The fund purchases properties in the heart of local communities, chosen with the fund’s expert housing partners. Properties are refurbished to a high standard including improving their energy efficiency and once refurbished, they are handed over to housing partners to manage tenancies and support tenants.

Stable homes allow tenants to transition from homelessness to becoming part of their community, gaining employment or training, saving for their future and giving them the ability to eventually move on into their own private accommodation.

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT NATIONAL HOMELESSNESS PROPERTY FUND 2 HERE.