Impact investment company Resonance and property manager Patron Capital Partners have launched a gender-lens £100m investment property fund to support women who are risk of homelessness, abuse victims and ex-offenders.
The fund has been created as a solution to the lack of affordable, safe and secure homes for women who are fleeing domestic abuse, female ex-offenders and women who have complex additional needs. The Women In Safe Homes (WISH) fund aims to provide around 650 affordable homes across the UK and is being rolled out with an initial investment of £15.5m. The 'world-first' WISH fund helping house female abuse victims and ex-offenders It works by acquiring properties and leasing them to women's sector organisations and homelessness charities, which, in turn, will rent homes to women at ri...
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