UK Landlord Forum / Life

I Provide a supported living service for adults with learning disability's, I just wanted to know if anyone else is involved with or rents too LD tennents, If so just some advice surrounding rent rates & posibly any other advice or experiences surrounding this.

Many Thanks

I know someone who does this. What advice do you want?

I have taken over some flats that were used for emergency rehoming.

I found some post where what the council paid per week, is what "normal" situations get per month.

The rent would depend on what support you provided, but I would guess at at least £150 a week extra per tenant for an on call provision.

My friend just gets the housing benefit and lets the family arrange their own care people. They get the housing benefit and the care people get some of the DLA money.

The other option is to rent the house to a care provider but my friend recommends against this.

 I have seen some of the supported living schemes

Mentally Disabled people have already had their money reduced by ATOS, been mentally incapable of appealing and ATOS have ignored their request to appeal.

So they have very low income unless they are very physically disabled, so to be clear, you would take money from a mentally disabled person when they already have peanuts to live on, so you can provide what the "care in the community" was supposed to pay for in the first place?

Just so I am clear?

Disabled people have families who act on their behalf. Some prefer that they stay in assisted accomodation rather than a care home.

Like I said my friend does this. He tends to deal with the parents of young adults who would rather their child lived in assited accomodation.

He only gets the housing benefit portion of their payments. The DLA goes to the care provider which is arranged by the family.