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About us
Southern Housing is one of the largest housing associations in the UK. We were formed through the merger of Optivo and Southern Housing Group in December 2022. We own and manage almost 80,000, mostly affordable homes across London, the Midlands and the southeast of England.
Southern Housing is a not-for-profit social landlord with charitable status regulated by the Regulator of Social Housing. The Regulator has recently awarded us its top grade (G1) for Governance. And its second highest (V2 & C2) grades for our performance against its Viability and Consumer standards.
We reinvest every penny we receive from rent, service charges and sales into delivering services to our residents, maintaining our existing homes and building new ones. Our vision is to create communities where everyone has a safe home in a place where they’re proud to live.
Our tenure mix as of 31 March 2024
- 65% General needs
- 12% Shared Ownership
- 9% Supported care & homes for older people
- 8% Leasehold
- 2% Keyworkers
- 2% Non-social housing eg. market rented
- 2% Temporary and intermediate housing
Our rents are typically just 41% of private rents.
2023/24 highlights
- We helped 4,853 households with money guidance
- We helped residents secure £8.3m additional income and savings
- We completed 748 new affordable homes
- 67% of our residents in rented accommodation said they were satisfied with our level of service.
Where are our homes located?
We have homes across 114 different local authorities. Our top ten local authorities make up half of our total housing stock (38,907 of 79,820 homes).
Our top 5 local authorities by stock
- Swale: 7,003 homes
- Hastings: 4,411 homes
- Croydon: 4,161 homes
- Wandsworth: 3,998 homes
- Isle of Wight: 3,668 homes.
We are the largest provider of social homes in the following local authorities:
Top 5 parliamentary constituencies
We have homes across 191 Parliamentary constituencies.
Our top five parliamentary constituencies by stock are:
- Sittingbourne and Sheppey: 5,220 homes
- Hastings and Rye: 5,087 homes
- Bexhill and Battle: 3,030 homes
- Isle of Wight: 2,328 homes
- Stratford and Bow: 2,279 homes.
Our stock maps
Local authority boundaries
Use the interactive map to see our homes within local authority boundaries.
Parliamentary constituency boundaries
Use this map to see our homes within Parliamentary boundaries.
