Landlords for homelessness charity to compete with Shelter and Crisis?

I think that this is a basis of an excellent idea.The biggest problem for landlords is the name itself and the public's perception of us.
The only way to convince the Government to be more positive towards the minority Landlord groups is to take a positive and pro active approach.The landlord group will never be attractive to any political party as it is too small compared to the millions of tenants.We need to make positive headlines that cannot be ignored by the press.
In essence this idea has a definite future in my opinion.

I just housed a homeless person a few weeks ago and I'm willing to do this and have done many times before if I feel the person is decent and will be a good tenant and not abuse the situation which I have had in the past , I would be behind such a charity as I resent shelter who defend bad tenants , I have had this happen and all the money these charities get from the public , most of the public do not even know that shelter do not house anyone or how much the top management get paid to fight a war on people like myself who do house homeless people and my running with shelter was when I housed a homeless couple in a flat in a block but after many complaints from the block management about their anti-social behaviour and many warnings I was forced to evict them, I did not the block management would take legal action against me, yet shelter tried to block this eviction and I could not even call shelter and now I am am anti-shelter.

With the freezing weather and the great work of the Salvation Army I only hope they can provide a safe refuge for the homeless this winter.
A true homeless charity

Reply to the comment left by Sam at 13/12/2022 - 10:08
Whilst is agree with your sentiment I do not think there is anything which will convince politicians (Particularly Gove) that landlords are anything but evil snivelling offspring of unmarried parents.

Reply to the comment left by DAMIEN RAFFERTY at 13/12/2022 - 10:13
And the only homelessness charity to which I donate.

Reply to the comment left by DAMIEN RAFFERTY at 13/12/2022 - 10:13
I have huge respect for the Sally Army, but you might like to take a close look at the proportion of finances that gets used in the admin of the army rather than being allocated to helping. That said, the SA is a unique organisation with a genuine christian ethos.

Agreed, even though I feel we are already dishing out £100,000s in tax especially CGT as we all try to sell up. We need the public recognition of all the money LLs give to government purse to help pay for the NHS ect.
LL's are treated like the smokers who also paid £100,000s in tax in their lifetimes.
I might just stick with the Salvation army. good luck

Great idea. But we already have the Salvation Army that is an existing charity who include caring for the homeless. Why not approach them to extend their ambit and reach out to a group of landlords who will form the core of this new venture. Saves having to set up a new charity and its admin Donations to this new group could be 'ring-fenced' for housing.

I am a private landlord, but I also set up and run a charitable organisation that provides supported housing for the homeless. I've been doing this since 2004, and receive no government grants or funding, and yet have housed and supported around 650 homeless people. These are people that are unlikely to be accepted by private landlords, e.g. in receipt of benefits, multiple debts, history of evictions, offending behaviour, drug/alcohol dependencies, mental health issues, etc.

Although I've managed to provide supported housing for over 650 people, so much more could be done if there was funding available for the support work. Unfortunately, many people who end up homeless are in need of support to manage and sustain their tenancies, and the lack of support is often part of the reasons for the person becoming homeless. Unfortunately, while the likes of Shelter do offer support to tenants, it is in my view the wrong sort of support as it is aimed against the landlord rather than being aimed at working with the landlord to achieve an outcome that is acceptable to all parties. This has a long-term negative affect on the tenants, as although they may fight off an imminent eviction, in the longer term this will still happen and will leave both the tenant and the landlord worse off financially. It's a lose/lose outcome, when what a truly helpful charity should be aiming for is a win/win outcome.

In 2001 - 2005, when I worked in local government homelessness departments, I always sought to work with landlords to give them the security they needed to enable them to house the more vulnerable (higher risk) tenants, and included in this work I developed a scheme for giving landlords rent in advance (paid back to the council by the tenant), a cash deposit, and also a rent/damage guarantor (for costs not recovered from the deposit), but unfortunately, even though it would have been cost neutral, the idea was rejected by higher management.

The scheme I proposed to a LA 18 years ago could be run by a charity now, but it would not be cost neutral, as the cost neutral part of it factored in the savings to the council's homelessness budget (and utilised their facilities), therefore a charity would need considerable funding to be able to run such a scheme.

Reply to the comment left by Paul Essex at 12/12/2022 - 12:51
Is that all?