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Learning disability charity registers as social landlord
Mencap, which provides community housing for people with learning difficulties, has registered its housing arm as a housing association.
GLH tenants
Golden Lane Housing (GLH), which was set up by the charity in 1998, has registered to be a social landlord with the Homes and Communities Agency.
The organisation, which owns 400 homes across England, will now be subject to HCA regulation and access grant and financial benefits for housing associations.
It aims to help people with learning difficulties live in the community, rather than in ‘large, often remote institutions’.
Alastair Graham, director of GLH, said: ‘Becoming a registered provider will provide more security for our existing tenants at a time when there is increasing uncertainty as a result of welfare reforms.
‘We will also be able to offer more flexibility, and provide different types of housing for greater numbers of vulnerable tenants, which would otherwise have been unviable.’
The charity recently issued a retail bond which is expected to raise £11m to build new homes.
