What is Housing Related Support?
Stonham HomeStay is a free and confidential housing support service for people who are at risk of losing their home or need help to settle into or set up a new home.
Some of the reasons why HomeStay may be able to offer you housing support:
- Relationship breakdown or bereavement
- Moving into a new home
- Debt problems, including mortgage and rent arrears
- Homeless or at risk of becoming homeless
- Domestic violence
- Physical or mental health problems
- Drug or alcohol problems
The type of housing support HomeStay offers?
- Help to develop independent living skills
- Budgeting and debt advice
- Benefits and welfare rights, including form filling
- Settling into your home, including setting up your gas and electricity bills; etc
- Help to understand your tenancy/mortgage responsibilities
- Accessing other services in the community
- Support to speak up for yourself
- Access to training and employment
- Help to resolve neighbour disputes
- Support during court, tribunal or appeal hearings
HomeStay doesn’t offer:
- Counselling
- Transport to and from appointments
- Personal care, including washing and bathing
- Cleaning, gardening, shopping, cooking and making phone calls for you
- Giving you medication
- Administering your personal finances
- Accommodation
We can put you in touch with other specialist services who can help you with these things though.
The housing related support we offer can be provided through home visits, telephone or by visiting one of our drop-in venues.