about us
what we do
The BME Housing Trust is a New Charitable Trust evolving out of a collaboration of 14 BME led registered social landlords in London to address the economic and discriminative disparities facing social housing tenant stakeholders.
Context of our work
Debt Justice shows that people of Black and minority ethnic backgrounds are almost twice as likely to be in serious debt as White people. A 2023 Office for National Statistics survey into the cost of living crisis finds that about half of Asian or British Asian adults, and 47% of Black, African, Caribbean or Black British adults were finding it difficult to afford their rent or mortgage payments, compared with 33% of White adults. The New Economics Foundation finds that Black, Asian and other minority ethnic households will experience an increase in the cost of living, 1.6 times higher than their White counterparts, as people on low or insecure incomes are often forced into pricier arrangements such as prepayment meters, higher-cost credit or being unable to buy everyday goods such as food in bulk.
Our projects to date include working with the Felix Project to deliver healthy and nutritious food, research into social housing provision for elders, reviewing best practice in delivering affordable nursery provision. Welfare support to social housing tenants. Empowering the voices of BME social housing tenants.
We are about transforming lives of BME Housing Sector Social Housing Tenants Through Collaborative and Targeted Interventions.
we are on a mission to solve
the problems
BMEHT Trustees agreed they would focus on the cost of living and health and wellbeing as the Trust initial strategic priorities as these issues cut across the primary needs of all the social housing tenants and BME communities that they serve