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Collaborative Pilot Project Tackles Housing Injustice

East Belfast Mission has partnered with Commonweal Housing, a charity that facilitates social investment into innovative solutions to housing injustice. Together we bought 5 houses to resettle people in housing need. This is a pilot that we hope can be replicated to help address the growing problem of homelessness in Northern Ireland.

We are working in partnership with Queen’s University Belfast Community & Places Project who are evaluating the project and will record and publish our model and share it with others to help with replication across the homelessness sector in the UK. In the first years 6 households have been given a home through this project.

Homelessness

An individual suffering homelessness is identified or referred to Hosford and becomes a Hosford client.

Hosford Hostel

Emergency and temporary accommodation is offered by Hosford, giving the client shelter, security and the first building block to getting on their feet.

Hosford Apartment

The next building block is to provide the client with the pathway towards independent home rental or even ownership by offering supported short-term accommodation in a Hosford Apartment.

Hosford Community Homes

The lack of affordable housing is a major barrier to independent living. The Hosford Community Homes project is an innovative solution and final building block to provide longer-term tenancies to Hosford clients who are ready to take the next step, but are not able to afford independent rentals.