My Social Housing - Using technology to match and facilitate social housing for the homeless.

为限制病毒传播而采取的封锁措施已导致许多人失去工作或收入，导致英国各地拖欠租金和无家可归者增加。Housemark估计，COVID-19大流行导致45，000个额外的社会家园空置。目前填补这些空置房屋的过程非常耗时和资源消耗，这意味着尽管英国有320，000人无家可归，但这些房屋中的大多数仍然空置。地方当局目前只能在他们是被接受的无家可归者的自治市提供住宿，而没有其他任何东西-这意味着如果目前没有可用的房产，那么服务用户必须在临时住房之间移动，否则将面临无家可归（等待名单通常超过10年）。示例：服务用户在布伦特的临时住宿中等待B&B安全和负担得起的住宿。有一个无效的财产在哈罗理事会（邻近的自治市）是空置的，因为没有人从哈罗想要的财产。在理事会找到合适的人选之前，该房产将一直空置。然而，目前在伦敦有9万个其他家庭在临时住所，他们希望有机会重新安置到哈罗的房产中。目前没有任何方法或流程可以让这些房产对英国的所有服务用户开放。英国议会迫切需要一个解决方案，以帮助匹配服务用户与可用的，否则空的社会家园以外的自治市（通过邻近的自治市或与家庭等紧密联系的另一个地区）。为了解决这个关键问题，My Social Housing正在开发一款应用程序，帮助用户根据个人标准找到自己的房产，例如靠近家庭的位置，工作，学校或其他因素。该应用程序需要身份证/收入证明和欺诈检查完成，然后MSH代表用户填写申请表，并发送到住房协会，以确认查看日期。

Lockdown measures introduced to limit the spread of the virus have led to many people suffering job or income losses, leading to increased rent arrears and homelessness across the UK. Housemark estimate that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to 45,000 extra social homes sitting empty.The current process for filling these empty homes is vastly time and resource consuming, meaning that despite 320,000 people being homeless in the UK, a majority of these home remain empty. Local authorities currently can only offer accommodation in the borough where they are an accepted homeless case and nothing else -- meaning if no properties are currently available then service users must move between temporary housing or face homelessness (waiting lists are often over 10 years).Example: A service user is in Brent in Temporary Accommodation and is waiting in a B&B for secure and affordable accommodation. There is a void property in Harrow Council (neighbouring borough) that is vacant as no one from Harrow wanted the property. That property will sit vacant until the council can find someone for it. However, there is 90,000 other families currently in Temporary Accommodation in London, that would welcome the opportunity to be re-housed into a property in Harrow.There is no current way or process to make these properties available and visible to all service users in the UK. UK councils are in desperate need of a solution to help match service users with available and otherwise empty social homes from outside their borough (either through a neighbouring borough or to another area with strong links such as family).In order to address this critical issue, My Social Housing are developing an app that helps users find their own properties based on their individual criteria, such as location near family, work, school or other factors. The app requires proof of ID/income and fraud checks are completed, then MSH complete the application form on behalf of the user and send to the housing association to confirm viewing dates.