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The Southern Housing Group is made up of four organisations: Samuel Lewis Housing trust, City and Countries Housing Association, The Women's Housing Trust and Southern Housing Foundation. It manages nearly 16, 000 properties, concentrated in the South of England and has about 30, 000 tenants and leaseholders. It has a century of experience in providing affordable housing to meet local needs.
The Samuel Lewis Trust Limited was founded in 1901 by a bequest from the wealthy financier Samuel Lewis, this is the parent body of the Group. It is a charitable housing association and one of the largest providers of rented accommodation in south east England.
The City and Countries Housing Association Limited is the Group's non-charitable arm and looks after all home ownership and leasehold properties. It develops and manages a range of low cost housing and provides a specialist management service to over 1000 retirement leasehold properties.
The Women's Housing Trust is a specialist charitable association operating in London and providing mainly hostel accommodation for single women.
The Southern Housing Foundation was formed in 1998 to resource the Groups Housing Plus work, by funding community development and estate projects, training and employment initiativesand, in partnership with other agencies, regenerating former local authority estates.