Further inequality was observed as people needed homes but could not access the Private Rental Sector because finding the deposit and rent in advance was an insurmountable barrier. This barrier started to be brought down alongside our local authority who donated £2500 in 1994 to get a unique to our area housing project started where no deposit or rent in advance was required. This was the birth of CARE Housing. The scheme gained popularity amongst landlords and local agencies that saw the need and benefits...

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Still today, CARE works alongside landlords with a social conscience and good quality property, who are prepared to accept a £500 paper bond from CARE in lieu of a damages bond with are no other costs. We can offer the most vulnerable members of our community help through CARE Housing, even those with the most troubled and chequered pasts such as addictions, domestic violence, and debt that resulted in eviction or bankruptcy. We work intensively to set up and sustain tenancies that work long-term. It is our policy to charge no more than £5 top up as we know people on benefits cannot manage a greater top-up. We explain this to landlords who wish to join our scheme. We charge landlords 4% of yearly rental income for our services to them. As we are totally independent, we can manage our housing applications on a case-by-case basis, we do not have a one size fits all approach and instead we are flexible and creative in the ways we can manage risk in order to house people. We could not do this without the backing of our landlords, so we endeavour to give them a quality of service that cannot be matched elsewhere for value. Landlords report to us that the supportive services we give their tenants mean that they will take a risk on people they would not otherwise house.

History of CARE Housing (formerly CARE Rent Scheme)

History of CARE and the CARE Shop

‘CARE is dedicated to relieving Homelessness, Poverty, Hardship, and Distress in Grimsby, Cleethorpes and North East Lincolnshire’.

CHRISTIAN ACTION & RESOURCE ENTERPRISE is a Company Limited by Guarantee No. 2790390 Registered Charity No. 1027978