Flatmates
Most people have some experience of living in shared housing and know how hard it is and how good it can be. Most of us will have happy memories and horror stories.
Flatmates offers affordable and suitable accommodation to single people.
Our prospective tenants have got no choice but to share. They are being forced into sharing by a benefit rule that only permits rent for welfare claimants to be paid on the cost of a single room in a shared flat. This only applies to people under 25 and those seeking housing in the private rented sector. They have no safety net. When things go wrong there is no Mum to run to, no 'home' to go home to, no friends in a position to put you up until things get sorted. Most Flatmates are one step away from homelessness.
Flatmates helps people to find suitable people to share with. It helps them to 'prepare to share': to anticipate the sorts of situations and 'sharing' challenges they will face and agree in advance strategies for dealing with them. It provides a formal agreement for sharers and the right to seek help and mediation if either sharer is unhappy with how things are going.
If you want to find out more email julie(AT)cyrenians.org.uk or call 01506 205413
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