Working with Homeless People
BACC has been involved with Bradford Speakout since its beginnings in 2001.
Recent activity has been work with the Healthcare Commission with an event held @ Bradford Day Shelter on 23rd March 2007.
For more information visit : Bradford Speakout website
For Housing & Homelessness reports, click here
Also:
National Supporting People Directory, which contains details of support services in your area.
Bradford Homehunter
is a new scheme, which works in partnership with Incommunities, Housing
Associations and private landlords to improve customer choice in
obtaining rented accommodation. Its gives the customer a wide variety
of properties to choose from in most areas of Bradford, the properties
have various benefits, click here
For free housing advice call the Shelter free helpline: 0808 800 4444
Shelter cannot house you, but we can give confidential help to people with all kinds of housing problems.
Picture from Speakout event
Free Food and Places to Go for the Homeless
This list is up-to-date, but provision can change at any time so you should check if in doubt, click here
Hope Housing have partnered with national housing charity called Green Pastures to buy houses for homeless people. Support for the tenants will be given by local churches trained up by Hope Housing.
Hope Housing has setting up a project to house people in volunteers' homes around Bradford for 1 to 2 nights. This will provide the much needed emergency accommodation and care, which is lacking in Bradford for people over 25.
For help or more infomation about Hope Housing, click here
The Self help housing website provides ordinary people, who are perhaps unable to access mainstream housing or who want to tackle local problems, with the tools to take on and make use of the increasing number of empty properties in our cities, towns and villages Itīs the first time that this range of information has been brought together in one place where it can be accessed by anyone.
Many of todayīs large housing associations and co-ops were started up forty or fifty years ago by local people with just a couple of properties and so itīs not really a new idea; just one that needs reviving.
The site provides everything you need to know:
-how to get organised
-how to get hold of and borrow empty properties from their owners
-where to go for funding
-how to organise any necessary repairs
-how to use volunteers
-how to turn renovating properties into a training opportunity.
-plus a bank of specimen documents
It also provides many useful contacts to enable you to find out what other people have done and achieved:
-case studies highlighting different types of successful projects
-a directory of projects already involved in self help housing
-links to other organisations and website, click here
Housing Justice is the national voice of Christian action in the field of housing and homelessness. We exist because we believe that human dignity is challenged by the lack of decent housing.
Housing Justice vision is a of a society where every person has access to a home that truly meets their needs. A tough call – but we're convinced that, working together, we can make it possible. This is what we mean by Christian vision in action, click here
Housing Justice has published "Rights Guide for Rough Sleepers" which is aimed at rough sleepers, to assist them in coping with any perceived coercive treatment from authorities.
To view the "Rights Guide for Rough Sleepers" click here
Church Housing Trust -
Giving homeless people a chance to
turn their lives around
Church Housing Trust is a charity dedicated to the rehabilitation and resettlement of homeless people of all ages and backgrounds. By tackling the longer-term issues that perpetuate homelessness, rather than providing quick fixes, Church Housing Trust offers new beginnings for homeless people of all ages, click here