- Housing and support options
- Technical information
8 ways to get a houseA fact sheet describing the ways to get a house.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Buying to rent to a disabled personA fact sheet that tells you about buying a place that you let to a disabled person.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Collective ownershipA fact sheet describing how a group of people can own a house together - often for sons and daughters.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Shared Ownership and Help to BuyThis factsheet explains low cost home ownership options
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Ownership through a discretionary trustA fact sheet that describes putting money into a trust - a long-term, secure financial provision for a relative.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Inheritance and gifted propertyThis fact sheet tells you about ways of leaving money or property to a relative.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Intentional communitiesThis fact sheet describes schemes set up to house disabled people in a supportive community.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Renting accommodation to relativesThis fact sheet outlines the limitations and possibilities in renting to a relative.
- Basic Info
- Technical information
Renting privatelyThis fact sheet gives detail about renting from private landlords.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Residential careThis fact sheet tells you about residential care - accommodation and support shared with other people.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Shared ownership and family investmentThis fact sheet describes shared ownership - including the option of the family funding a share.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Shared supported housingThis fact sheet describes a kind of housing where people have their own room in a shared house and get staff support.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Succession and tenancyThis fact sheet tells you about a disabled person's right to stay in a property - rented owned - as their family gets older.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Support tenantsThis fact sheet explains how people with learning disabilities can be supported by a tenant who lives with them.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Supported living networksThis fact sheet describes how people can live in their own place in an ordinary area and be part of a support network.
- Housing and support options
- Technical information
Shared Lives and supported lodgingsThis fact sheet describes two ways that someone with a learning disability can live in someone else's family home.
- Rights and the law
- Technical information
- Tenancy
Types of Tenancy AgreementsAn overview of Types of Tenancy Agreements
- Rights and the law
- Technical information
Using the Law to Fight CutsUsing the Law to Fight Cuts to Disabled People’s Services is practical guide for campaigners – disabled people, families, carers and local groups (Updated version July 2012)
- Rights and the law
- Technical information
Choice, Contracts and Mental Capacity Act 2005 This Guide is written primarily for staff working with people with learning disabilities and with their families and support networks. We assume some knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
- Paying for housing, support and daily living
- Technical information
Family investment in housingThis fact sheet tells you how a family member can provide housing for their relative.
- Paying for housing, support and daily living
- Technical information
Buying, renting and passing on propertyA guide to the different ways a family can arrange housing for a disabled relative.
- Paying for housing, support and daily living
- Technical information
Buying a house using Support for Mortgage InterestThis factsheet describes how a disabled person can use Support for Mortgage Interest to buy a property.
- Paying for housing, support and daily living
- Technical information
Discretionary Trusts and taxThis fact sheet considers some of the tax implications when you set up a Discretionary Trust.
- Paying for housing, support and daily living
- Technical information
Housing Benefit tenancies - exempt or excluded from restrictionsThis fact sheet explains how some tenancies tenancies are 'exempt' or 'excluded' from the ordinary rules that apply to calculating how much Housing Benefit can be paid in private sector tenancies.
- Rights and the law
- Technical information
- Tenancy
Tenancy Agreements for people with learning disabilitiesAn overview of Tenancy Agreements for people with learning disabilities