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Camden Living is a company set up by Camden Council and managed by council staff. It lets and manages 65 flats on new developments on fixed term assured shorthold tenancies. Camden Living rent is more than council tenants pay but significantly less than market rent. The company aims to house people who live or work in Camden who can't afford private sector rents.
If you manage properties on Maiden Lane, Chester/Balmore or the Bourne estate you will have Camden Living properties on your patch.
On 6th April 2016, Cabinet agreed an Intermediate Housing Strategy for the borough and for the Council to set up a company called Camden Living.
Camden Living's focus is to improve the housing offer in Camden by buying properties originally earmarked for shared ownership in the Community Investment Programme (CIP) and letting them as intermediate rented homes to people who would be otherwise excluded from living in Camden either due to high rents or would be unlikely to secure social housing, in particular, key workers.
Camden Living homes are sometimes also known as intermediate rent homes.
The company is run and managed by Camden council staff alongside socially rented flats. However, the allocating of the flats is outside of the existing council allocations scheme with interested parties registering an interest on-line and the allocating done by the partnerships team in housing management.
There are various housing associations in Camden that are also offering intermediate rent properties.