Helping people find homes
Helping families and people secure safe and affordable community housing. Identifying long term housing property for those in need.
Helping families and people secure safe and affordable community housing. Identifying long term housing property for those in need.
At Housing Need, we are dedicated to helping families and individuals find secure and stable homes. We believe that everyone deserves a place to call home, and we work tirelessly to make that a reality. We focus our efforts on helping young people find a secure home.
We are an organization dedicated to improving the lives of those in need. Join us in making a difference today!
Please reach us at info@housingneed.org if you cannot find an answer to your question.
We provide resources and assistance to help people towards securing stable housing. Mainly individuals and families who need a home or may be at risk of losing theirs. We work on finding empty home information from all sources, the public, business and volunteers. Working together to find homes for those in need. We aim to help young adults get an early start in life with a safe home. If you know of an empty property let us know through an email, details below.
We seek and provide information on empty homes, run down properties, plots of land, and useful resources such as local authority sites and funding opportunities. With help from our partners and contacts we make information and links available to find a home.
We use donations, legacy gifts, contributions to help fund our work. We collect and manage data to help support our work in finding properties, and to get people with difficulties find a home. We also guide people to the best resources to help themselves find what options are available.
We search for information and get data from partners and individuals about empty and abandoned property, with a view to housing people in need. Send us information on empty properties which could help you and other people who need a home today.
1 in 25 homes in the UK are empty for one reason or another, we provide information, guidance and links to resources that will help find a home for someone in need. 1 million homes are empty and 325,000 people in need of a home are in temporary accommodation.
A mixture of long term (over 6 months), exempted (has an issue), mid-term (under 6 months), empty holiday lets and furnished homes not in use makes up the 1 in 25 empty homes across the UK. Abandoned homes make up many of the long term empty properties.
We do research and seek empty homes through people and organisations, we search for information on homes that can be utilised for homeless people. Identifying empty, abandoned, derelict homes and plots of land. We provide useful information on resources in many forms to help you find a home. We provide data from Councils, Housing Associations and social housing sources.
Since 2016 the increase in empty homes is up, 2024 saw an increase of 4,000. The highest since the 2020 pandemic. Second homes total 280,000 in the UK. Some homes are often empty due to family disputes, no known heirs and many abandoned due to high refurbishment costs, inheritance tax or long term sickness. We seek to find out which properties can be become a home for someone. The resources we provide help people to search for themselves in the hunt for a home.
We provide information, links and guidance to help the homeless or people threatened with being homeless. This includes empty property from Councils, charities and access to resources that will help. We are adding to this list of resources regularly.
Links
LandAid - The property industry charity
http://helpinghertshomeless.org.uk
www.maldon.gov.uk › empty_property_list
Your support and contributions will enable us to meet our goals and improve opportunities for homeless people. Your generous donation will fund our mission. If you have a home, building or land you can gift or leave a legacy will help many homeless people.
We would love to hear from you and how you can help.
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