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Renting your property to a refugee family is one of the most significant ways in which you can help a family start a new life here in the UK.
Here at Reset, we can support landlords to rent to refugees through two schemes: Community Sponsorship and Homes for Ukraine.
Renting your property to refugees through Community Sponsorship
We spoke to Jo, a landlord in London, who rented her property to a refugee family through Community Sponsorship. Here she tells us why she would encourage other landlords to do the same and answers some of your key questions:
When my property in London became available, I knew that I wanted to find a way to let it to a refugee family. And I can say now that this was the best decision I could have made. It’s been such a simple way to make a transformational difference to the life of a refugee family.
Letting your property to refugees really is a win-win – you get your regular rental payments and a refugee family gets a home. On top of this, the community is enriched by the refugee family’s presence. You benefit, the family benefits, and the community benefits. I can’t recommend it enough.
There are two main ways that you can rent your home to newly arrived refugees. You can offer your property to a Community Sponsorship group or you can offer it to your council (if they are participating in a resettlement scheme). Either way, you’ll be providing a home to vulnerable refugees. The only difference is that refugees resettled through Community Sponsorship receive their main support from local people rather than the Local Authority. To find out how to rent your home to refugees through Community Sponsorship, get in touch with Reset.
As a landlord, I know that you probably have lots of questions that you need answered before you’ll feel confident about letting your property to newly-arrived refugees. In this blog, I’ve answered some of the biggest questions that I had when I first began to consider letting my property to refugees.
To find out more about becoming a landlord for refugees – there’s a whole section you can check out.
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