Housing Types

Although Viewpoint specialises in the provision of services to people who are mainly elderly and some who are frail, it is also committed to house all sections of the community.

Viewpoint owns and manages a variety of different types of accommodation.

These are:-

1) Sheltered/Retirement Housing

For applicants 60 years of age and over. These properties provide independent living and benefit from having:-

• Staff on site 5 days a week but not 24 hours a day
• A centralised call and alarm service which is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year
• Activity monitoring

Some of these are suitable for wheelchair applicants.

2) Enhanced Supported Housing

For applicants 60 years of age and over. These properties provide independent living and benefit from having:-

• Staff on site 7 days a week but not 24 hours a day
• A centralised call and alarm service which is available 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year
• Activity monitoring
• Meals provided in a communal dining room as part of the tenancy package

Some of these properties are also suitable for wheelchair users.

3) Alarmed Housing

For people 50 years of age or over. These properties provide independent living and benefit from:-

• A centralised call and alarm service which is available 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year
• Remote inactivity monitoring

4) Dispersed Alarmed Housing

For people 50 years of age or over. These properties provide independent living and benefit from having:-

• A centralised call and alarm service which is available 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year

5) Wheelchair Housing

The Association has a number of properties within some of these complexes which are suitable for wheelchair users.

The facilities these properties can provide include:-

• Space standards for a wheelchair user
• Door widths for wheelchair users
• Level Access entry
• Sockets at wheelchair height
• Level access showers
• Kitchen worktops whose height can be adjusted

6) Amenity Housing

For people 50 years of age or over. These properties provide independent living and are generally on the ground or first floors.

7) General Needs Housing

For applicants over the age of 16 years who are able to sustain a tenancy on their own or with the assistance of a registered support provider.

8) Loanstock Housing

This is for applicants who wish to apply for sheltered or enhanced supported housing and who can fund an unsecured investment in one of these properties. This investment gives a right of tenancy to a vacant property. There are around 101 properties in the Edinburgh area which are allocated through Loanstock. For further details and an information leaflet contact the Viewpoint office.

9) Supported Housing

Viewpoint works in partnership with support providers in Edinburgh and Fife in order to supply housing for tenants who require support to sustain a tenancy in the community. Each project is subject to separate Allocations policies and therefore any one interested in this type of accommodation should contact Viewpoint in the first instance for further advice.