Case Study
ForHousing offers Housing Perks to its 17,000 tenants in the West Midlands.
Housing Perks is the UKs most popular cost of living support solution for housing association and local authority tenants.
Tenants can save money on their everyday spending or pay arrears as they shop and receive hardship payouts.
The app is free to use and discounts are on the essentials that they use every day. Tenants can save up to 50% using the app by paying with vouchers, cashback and discount codes. Tenants can receive free items too.
When a tenant spends £100 at a supermarket for their weekly shop using Housing Perks app, we automatically put £5 towards their rent and arrears at no cost to the tenant. This works at hundreds of national retailers we've partnered with including all the major supermarkets. The transaction can be for virtually any amount and we put up to 20% of the transaction towards rent and arrears at no cost to the tenant.
This is the first and only solution of its kind for local authority and housing association tenants. Tenants can easily cover their minimum payment towards arrears every week by using the app to pay for their essentials. For tenants not in arrears, they can save up for a month's free rent.
I would highly recommend the app. It's so easy to use. I myself have saved over £30 using it on shopping and a meal out (in one month). I would also like to say how helpful our account manager has been throughout the process, nothing has been too much trouble and even when we had a tiny hiccup it was remedied immediately.”
Do you have a hardship fund which you use to send tenants in financial hardship vouchers? You can use the Housing Perks Hardship Plus web app for income officers. With it you can send tenants vouchers instantly. Tenants can even choose which supermarket brand they want to use their voucher at. You receive a discount on every voucher you send to your tenants and can track their usage in real time.
In the face of rising inflation and the cost of living crisis, ForHousing, a housing association with 17,000 properties in the North West, was determined to find innovative ways to support their tenants.
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