Cornwall Housing

Key Stats

Our Inclusion Advisors have brought in £679k of additional income and benefits to families while ensuring we only evicted 12 people in the year
100% of our homes continue to meet the Cornish Housing Standard
New 10 year Management Agreement and Commissioning Plan effective from 1 April 2020
Nos Da Kernow was highlighted as good practice in the Government’s Rough Sleeping Strategy
Opened a new £1.5m Gypsy and Traveller transit site to reduce the pressure on unauthorised encampment
Installed geo-location to Repairs and Maintenance vehicles to improve speed of customer response

Cornwall Housing manages 10,500 social housing homes in Cornwall, alongside looking after leaseholders and council housing on behalf of Cornwall Council.

How Cornwall Housing is helping homeless people

In 2018, Cornwall Housing was shortlisted as a finalist in the UK Housing Awards in the Outstanding Achievement in Tackling Homelessness category for its Nos Da Kernow project.

The project

Nos Da Kernow - which is Cornish for ‘Good night Cornwall’ - is our homeless prevention project. It sees Cornwall Housing working closely with Cornwall Council, Coastline Housing and other agencies across Cornwall in a £1.1million approach to preventing and reducing rough sleeping.

How we did it

The aims of the project are:

Deliver a no first night out approach to stopping rough sleeping in the first place, or preventing a return to sleeping rough
Initiate a partnership delivering new approaches for targeted prevention and early intervention to end rough sleeping and reduce rough sleeping levels in a sustainable way

The results/key statistics

Headline achievements:

Secured £230,000 of EU funding to support council tenants back into work
Achieved zero 16 and 17 year olds in bed and breakfast accommodation
Completed a successful review of all Cornwall Housing services

In the first two quarters of the operation in 2017:

175 cases were opened
121 cases closed
78% assessed at risk of rough sleeping had their homelessness prevented

Image for Mark Vinson 1400 — Pictured: Mark Vinson (Strategy and Initiative Manager) speaking at the Rough Sleeping Reduction Strategy launch event