Case studies
'When I saw the show home I could have cried, it was just perfect so I jumped at my chance to reserve.'
Jessica, Hackney
'I knew exactly what I was looking for and when I saw this apartment I was so impressed with its size and location.' Tina, Lewisham
'People said I wouldn't get a 'wow' factor on my budget, but I did.'
Rebekah, Crystal Palace
Michelle Leonard, Case Study Augustus Court, Old Kent Road (187 KB)
Six years of living in an expensive rented flat was enough for Michelle Leonard, a 29 year old community children’s nurse.
Darren Smith, Case Study, Westside Apartments, Ilford (86 KB)
Darren Smith 35, was so frustrated with his fruitless search for an affordable home in London and so fed up with temporary hospital accommodation that he almost fled to Canada.
His plans changed after hearing about the Intermediate Market Rent scheme from a colleague at the hospital where he works as a nurse.
Kelly Preston & Jaskawal Sagoo Case Study, Westside Apartments, Ilford (182 KB)
Key workers Kelly Preston and Jaskawal Sagoo are in dreamland now they have moved into a newly built apartment in Ilford. After years spent living in a crowded house, they now have their own space and save hundreds of pounds every month through subsidised rent.
Dawn Geary-Andrews, case study (136 KB)
Dawn Geary-Andrews is 31 and works for the ambulance service. She and her husband Nigel, a 33-year-old civil servant, used to live in a rented flat in central Croydon, but it was small and they were keen to move into a house.
Femi Agoro, Case study, Chandler Court, Thornton Heath (144 KB)
When Femi Agoro and his wife began to plan a family, they knew they needed to get on the property ladder. “It was important to us to be secure,” he says. “We’d been renting in different parts of London for years, and we just wanted to have somewhere of our own.” Femi an Incomes Officer with another housing association found his new home through Tower Homes.
Satu Moilanen, Case study at Rubicon, Greenwich (137 KB)
When Satu Moilanen, a nurse at Guy’s Hospital, pictured her dream flat, she knew exactly where it would be. Since arriving in the UK from Finland seven years ago, she had been living in rented accommodation in Charlton and Woolwich, south east London. But if she could have chosen somewhere to buy, it would always be in nearby Greenwich where she found her new home through Tower Homes.
Simon Richardson, Case study at Rubicon, Greenwich (129 KB)
Simon Richardson, 25, desperately wanted to find his own space. A police officer in London, he had been living in his parents’ house in Rainham, Kent, more than an hour away by train. On the positive side, his monthly rent was nominal, but he hated the daily commute and yearned for his own independence. Simon found his new home in Greenwich through Tower Homes.
Vanessa Bennett, Case study at Chandler Court, Thornton Heath (236 KB)
Vanessa Bennett, a primary school teacher in Vauxhall, couldn’t wait to move out of rented accommodation. Together with her young daughter, she was living in a council flat just a few minutes from her school. At the weekends, there was simply no escape from pupils, parents and fellow teachers.
Vanessa found her independence and her new home in Croydon through Tower Homes.
Rebekah Hall, a first for London (1.3 MB)
Rebekah Hall, 27 never thought she would own a home of her home until she heard about Tower Homes' affordable home ownership scheme. Rebekah a community psychiatric nurse bought her new home in Croydon and become the first person in London to move into her home from an expanded key worker scheme launched in October 2006.
Tower Case Studies September 2006 (441 KB)