Established in 1997 we’re the UK’s leading provider of help and support for disabled people who want to buy their own home. In the intervening years we’ve helped hundreds of people turn hopes into homes, changing many lives along the way. From people with mild learning disabilities through to those with complex physical and mental health needs (requiring 24/7 care) we’ve shown that home ownership is not only a viable option…it’s often the best. Along the way we’ve formed strong working relationships with leading Housing Associations, Care Providers and Local Authorities and developed a unique shared ownership model that offers the buyer unrivalled protection and security. Following the economic downturn the type of mortgages that we support are currently only available in some parts of England and Wales. Whilst recent changes to the benefits system now also limit the appropriateness of the scheme to those on High or Middle Rate Care Disability Living Allowance (who can also make a long-term financial contribution to their own mortgage and count on their family for this kind of support too), home ownership remains a viable, life enhancing option.
If you’re a Housing Association we’ll help you find buyers with 100% mortgages from an untapped market for your New Build HomeBuy properties, whilst also meeting some of the criteria within your organisation’s equality scheme. Of course getting the right type and size of property in the perfect location can be really tricky, if not impossible. That’s why we give people the opportunity to buy from the open market with you too, through a scheme known as Home Ownership for People with Long term Disabilities…or H.O.L.D for short. We’ll help you make the most of this scheme, maximising the number of people that you can help whilst supporting the growth and development of your business.
'As well as helping people with a disability buy a home of their own the MySafeHome team is helping us develop our business too, enabling us to make the most of the tremendous opportunities being created by giving individuals a real choice in terms of their accommodation and care’.
- Angela Nevin, Supported Housing Business Development Manager, Newlon.
‘MySafeHome is revolutionising the housing options open to people with a disability and we’re proud to be working in partnership with them. Together we’ve already helped nine individuals turn their hopes into homes, in every instance the support provided by the MySafeHome team was second to none’.
- Joanne Bridges, Home Ownership for people with Long term Disabilities (HOLD) Coordinator, InTouch
If you have subscribed to our newsletters you will have seen that our shared ownership scheme is now up and running again across parts of the UK.
It is with regret that we have to announce that our main lender, KRBS (now part of The One Savings Bank plc), has decided that it can no longer consider supporting the HOLD (Home Ownership for people with a Long-term Disability) scheme.
Whilst we continue to work tirelessly to launch our new shared ownership model we are still unable to announce when this might be available.
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