Resonance: Working With Our Housing Partner, Response

National Homelessness Property Fund 2 is one of Resonance’s homelessness property funds. It is working with ten expert housing partners across the UK to provide a housing solution for people experiencing homelessness. One of its housing partners is Oxford-based charity, Response. They provide a person-centred recovery-focused model for people with mental health and complex needs, enabling them to live independently within their local community.
The fund is buying ten shared homes and seventeen one-bedroom flats in and around Oxford for Response. These homes will provide around forty-seven people facing homelessness, rough sleeping and mental health issues, with a stable and affordable home of their own. And this partnership - thanks to investment from Oxford City Council - is also proving essential in the countywide Settled Oxfordshire project which provides a housing-led approach for people experiencing homelessness and rough sleeping in the area.
In our video, Luke Winstone, Settled Oxfordshire Manager, talks about one of Response’s tenants, who has been housed by the fund and supported by the charity, in Didcot. The tenant's new home is already making a difference to her, providing a solid foundation from which she has been able to find security and employment.
Luke also talks about the process of working with the Resonance team to source the right properties in the right locations to meet the needs of tenants. This means ensuring properties are within local communities with good access to services, support and local transport links.