If you have a vacant house in Headingley, you could consider leasing it to Headingley Homes, for letting to families.
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The Housing in Headingley Project is currently pursuing a threefold strategy:

HeadingleyHomes

Love Headingley – but have to leave?  Want to sell – but only to a family?  Many residents who have to leave Headingley want to pass on their home to another family resident.  As a short-term project, to meet this need, the Trust is introducing HeadingleyHomes, a ‘family-friendly’ option, in association with the local estate agency, Manning Stainton. HeadingleyHomes aims to help maintain a balanced, sustainable community in Headingley, by providing homes for families wanting to move in, and by finding family buyers for those who have to move out.  The aim of the HeadingleyHomes initiative is to help them to do so.  Contact Stevie Sawiuk, at Manning Stainton’s Headingley Branch, 20 Otley Road, tel 274 8646, email headingley@manning stainton.co.uk

Affordable Homes

The huge demand for private renting in Headingley has priced out a balanced community.  Affordable housing is essential to redress the balance of the community.  It’s an intractable problem.  In the medium term, the Trust is pursuing avenues, with housing associations and other housing agencies, to see if we can make houses available in Headingley which are affordable for long-term residents to buy or rent. A particular line of enquiry is exploring the possibilities provided by Section 106 Agreements in new developments, and setting up a Community Land Trust to do so. Meanwhile, local property-owners are invited to lease their properties to HDT (more information here)

Housing Strategy

In the long run, the Trust aims to prepare a Strategy for the development of housing in Headingley. Of course, the future development of housing in Headingley depends on the evolution of the local housing market.  The Trust therefore is involved both in (market) research and in (policy) development.  In partnership with the Area Committee and with Re'new, the Trust held a Seminar with local professionals to begin the preparation of a Strategy on 18 June 2007.  On 19 May 2008, this was followed by a Public Seminar on Housing in Headingley
Meanwhile, the Area Committee set up a Housing Strategy Group which worked on a Housing Strategy for the Area of Housing Mix.  This was completed in November 2008.  On 5 February 2009, the Strategy was presented to the Area Committee, and the city's housing strategy team agreed to use the draft as the basis for a final inner north west housing strategy.