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，2019冠状病毒病大流行已导致4.5万套额外的社会住房空置。目前填补这些空置房屋的过程非常耗费时间和资源，这意味着尽管英国有32万人无家可归，但其中大多数房屋仍然空置。地方当局目前只能在被接受的无家可归者所在的行政区提供住宿，而不能提供其他住宿——这意味着如果目前没有可用的房产，那么服务使用者必须在临时住房之间转移，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Brent的临时住宿区，正在一家民宿中等待安全且价格合理的住宿。哈罗议会（邻近的自治市镇）有一处空置的房产，因为哈罗没有人想要这块房产。那处房产将一直空置，直到市议会找到合适的买主。然而，目前在伦敦有9万户家庭住在临时住所，他们将欢迎有机会重新安置到哈罗的房产中。目前还没有办法或流程使这些属性对英国的所有服务用户可用和可见。英国地方议会迫切需要一种解决方案，帮助服务用户找到辖区外可用的、或者空置的社会住房（要么通过邻近的辖区，要么通过家庭等其他有紧密联系的地区）。为了解决这一关键问题，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，比如离家人、工作地点、学校或其他因素近。该应用程序需要完成身份/收入证明和欺诈检查，然后MSH代表用户填写申请表并发送给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.