A home of your own: shared ownership and social inclusion

Abstract

This article describes a shared ownership scheme developed by Advance Housing and Support so that people who have experienced mental health difficulties could have the choice to own their own home. Jennifer Barrett, Hilary Caldicott and Trevor Sasar De Sain have all been involved in Own Home ‐ one as the project manager and the other two as shared owners with the scheme ‐ and here describe what it was like from the inside, what worked and what didn't, and the impact of housing on people's experience of social exclusion and the accompanying loss of hope

Citation

Barrett, J., Caldicott, H. and De Sain, T. (2005), "A home of your own: shared ownership and social inclusion", A Life in the Day, Vol. 9 No. 2, pp. 18-22. https://doi.org/10.1108/13666282200500015