who is CAG.
community accommodation group
Who is Community
Accommodation
Group?
CAG was founded in 2020 in the midst of the COVID crisis.
We are determined that never again should people be on the streets or living from hand to mouth without a home. To help with change we have brought together leaders from financing, housing, charities, local authorities, community engagement and politics to build a new force in the sector.
We have decades of experience and expertise combined with a focus and determination to make a difference. CAG insists that our homes are high quality, furnished to high standards, individual and affordable to rent and run. We believe that the homeless should have a home and not just a roof.
We are based in the north of England but our reach is nationwide.
A little bit about the funding …
CAG is able to provide homes by deploying the financial support of institutions who make it their mission to have a social impact purpose. The money is long-term, British institutional funding. With our expertise in the social housing sector, CAG is able to buy homes for the vulnerable. The money is borrowed and is paid back over the long-term. We are a charity and our rents are at or below Local Housing Allowance levels.
'We have a need for a place that is called home. Home provides security, control, belonging, identity, and privacy, among other things. But most of all, it's a place that provides us with a centring — a place from which we leave each morning and to which we return each evening.’
The late Professor Robert Rubinstein, who taught anthropology at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County USA.
