Guaranteed Rental Properties | No deposit bond scheme set to help Coventry homeless
Guaranteed Rental Properties | A BOND scheme is set to
help city homeless families and single people secure a home, amid a
chronic shortage of affordable housing.
A NO deposit bond scheme is set to help Coventry’s homeless families
and single people secure a home, amid a chronic shortage of affordable
housing.
The Access to Private Rented Properties (APRP) scheme aims to help
families who cannot afford an initial deposit – to help combat rising
homelessness and heavy government funding cuts for social housing.
It encourages private landlords to accept a written bond guarantee in place of a cash deposit for 12-month tenancies.
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The bond can only be paid to private landlords who join the scheme,
which in turn offers them a free service to take the hassle out of
letting their properties. There are no administration charges, fees or
commission.
The APRP team will also inspect properties to ensure housing, health and safety standards are met.
If you have a property that you think
meets our criteria, contact our teamwhere we will arrange a time to come
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It comes as Coventry City Council’s cabinet meeting on January 8 is
expected to approve a new five-year Coventry Tenancy Strategy – with
more than 20,000 people on the Homefinder register looking for social
housing.
Councils including Labour-run Coventry say more welfare cuts expected this year threaten more homelessness.
Drawing up a tenancy strategy is a requirement placed on all councils by the coalition government.
It responds to government changes in the Localism Act 2011, including
the introduction of “fixed-term” tenancies of typically five years,
which ministers say will end lifetime “dependence” on council or housing
association homes.
But council leaders say the measures threaten long-established mixed
communities of people living together, and could create “ghettoes” for
the poorest.
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The strategy also seeks to protect hard-up families from the
government’s new higher “affordable rent” – of up to 80 per cent of the
market rate – to cover the costs of building affordable homes, amid
heavy government grant cuts for social housing.
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The Localism Act also removes a requirement that councils must find
social housing for homeless people in priority need if they turn down
private rented accommodation.
Councils – under their duty to house such people – can now make an offer of a private rented home their final offer.
Coun Ed Ruane, cabinet member for housing, welcomed the new tenancy
strategy, saying: “It clearly sets out our views, such as our opposition
to fixed term tenancies for residents in the social housing sector.
“But it also allows us to look at different ways to try and solve the housing problems that we face as a city.
“The Access to Private Rented Properties team is a good example of this.”
Renting from private landlords has doubled in the last decade in
Coventry, to one in five households, with
fewer owner occupiers who have
mortgages, and a slowdown in housebuilding.
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