Retirement living
If you’re over 55 and looking for a one or two-bedroom home to rent, our retirement living homes (sometimes called sheltered housing), could be just what you're looking for.
You’ll feel safe and secure in your own apartment or bungalow, with a friendly community on your doorstep and 24-hour emergency support if you need it.
Our one or two-bedroom self-contained flats or bungalows, have a lounge, modern kitchen and bathroom or wet room and they give you privacy and security too.
At most sites we have guest rooms for visiting friends and family, so you can have them close by and for a fraction of the price of a hotel.
All our retirement living homes have a communal lounge and gardens where you can meet with friends and get involved in community life as much or as little as you like.
Our activity co-ordinators organise social events around your interests. They’ll put on events like afternoon tea, bingo, quizzes, crafts or even a dance!
You’ll have access to 24-hour emergency support, if you need it, and a 24 hour repair service too. Our friendly scheme managers are on-hand to answer questions about your home and signpost you to any other support you may need.
How to rent a home
All our retirement living schemes are listed below so you can see if there’s one in your area. And, make sure you check out our Rightmove page as some of our retirement living homes are advertised on there.
You can also apply to rent our homes through your local authority – find out how to do this on our rent a home page.
Got a question? We might've answered it in our FAQs.
Our schemes
FAQs
It varies so you’ll need to check with the scheme manager. All our retirement living homes are available for social rent, which is a lower cost rent set by the government. You’ll also pay a service charge which covers things like cleaning of communal areas and emergency support.
Rent is often covered by benefits, but it depends on your financial circumstances. As part of the sign-up process the scheme manager will run through the rent and service charges and can help with what will be covered by benefits.
No, but you do need to pay some rent in advance before you move in. Please talk to the scheme manager if you’ve got any worries about this.
Most of our retirement living schemes have a guest room or a flat which is available for guests to stay in for a small charge (much cheaper than a hotel!).
This depends on where you move to, so you’ll need to ask the scheme manager.
You’ll need to be over 55 to live in one of our retirement homes.
Most of our retirement living homes are fully wheelchair accessible and 24-hour emergency support is available, for example if you have a fall. Whether it’s suitable for your individual needs depends on the scheme itself and what’s available but don’t worry, our scheme managers will be able to advise.
We don’t have onsite care teams. Some customers do have carers visit them to support them but this isn’t part of the service offered by Yorkshire Housing. The scheme manager will be able to help you decide if our retirement living schemes will meet your needs.
Loice Chunda
Scheme Manager
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