For councils

Whole homes for the households you place.

Housing officers need self-contained homes they can place a household in, often at short notice. Maine Stays offers whole, furnished houses on nightly or weekly terms, with the council as the booking party.

Send a placement request Call 024 7745 0677

Self-containedOwn kitchen and bathroom

Whole homesOne household per home

Nightly or weeklyTerms agreed with you

FurnishedBills and Wi-Fi included

What we provide

An alternative to bed and breakfast.

The Homelessness (Suitability of Accommodation) (England) Order 2003 treats bed and breakfast as unsuitable for a pregnant applicant or a family with children unless nothing else is available. Even then it limits the stay to six weeks. A whole house is a different kind of placement from the start.

Maine Stays runs whole, furnished homes in Coventry and in Brierley Hill in the Dudley borough. Maine Property Solutions, the company behind it, takes on further whole homes for council use across the West Midlands.

Placement types

The placements we can support.

Emergency and interim

Short-notice stays while enquiries are made, including under the section 188 interim duty.

Temporary accommodation

Longer stays in a self-contained home while a household waits for settled housing.

Staff and contractors

Whole houses for council staff, agency teams and contractors on council projects.

Standards

Before a home is offered for a placement.

A home is put forward only when every one of these is in place:

It is whole and self-contained, with its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance
Gas safety, electrical and energy certificates are current
A fire risk assessment is in place, with detection suited to the home
The lender, the freeholder and the insurer have agreed in writing to council placements
The length of stay has been agreed with the council

Requests

How a placement request works.

Send the need

Household size, bedrooms, the area and the likely length of stay.

See what fits

A home that meets the standard, with its dates.

Agree the terms

Placement terms in writing with the council.

Arrival

Self check-in and a named contact for the household.

By council

Pages for each authority.

Coventry City Council Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council City of Wolverhampton Council Birmingham City Council Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council Walsall Council Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council Rugby Borough Council Warwick District Council Stratford-on-Avon District Council North Warwickshire Borough Council

Landlords

Own a home a council could use?

Landlords who want a whole home used for council placements can lease it to Maine Property Solutions, which offers whole homes to councils once the consents are in place.

How landlords lease homes for council use →

Questions

Questions officers ask.

Are placements whole homes or rooms?

Whole, self-contained homes, one household to each home.

Who books the home?

The council. Placement terms are agreed with the council in writing before the household arrives.

Can you take short-notice requests?

Call 024 7745 0677. Short-notice placements depend on which homes are free that day.

What should we send first?

The household size, the bedrooms needed, the area and the likely length of stay. Please leave out names and personal details until a home is confirmed.

Which areas do the homes cover?

Our homes are in Coventry and in Brierley Hill in the Dudley borough. Maine Property Solutions takes on further whole homes across the West Midlands for council use.

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