Agudas Israel Housing Association

Agudas Israel Housing Association, also known by the acronym AIHA, is a Registered Social Landlord providing low-cost rental housing to the Jewish community in London and Salford. It owns and manages more than 500 dwellings.

History[]

AIHA was set up in 1981 as a campaign organisation to draw attention to the housing problems of the Orthodox Jewish community in the Stamford Hill area of North London, in the London Borough of Hackney.

Agudas Israel Housing Association was registered with the Housing Corporation in 1986 as a BME housing association, with the purpose of providing housing for Orthodox Jews. Its activities extend to Haringey, Barnet, and Salford, as well as its base in Stamford Hill.^[1] In 2011, it owned more than 700 residential units, many of which were developed with the support of funding from the Housing Corporation.

Agudas Israel's activities include the provision of supported housing for people with special needs and large housing units for extended families. Its flagship project is Schonfeld Square, a mixed development which incorporates rented housing for families, sheltered accommodation for elderly members of the community, and an old-age home. It also owns Beenstock House,^[2] a small care home in north Salford.

It is also responsible for a number of specialist units. These include Beis Brucha, the first Jewish mother-and-baby home in the United Kingdom, located in Stamford Hill and managed by the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations.

The association's developments in Salford include rental accommodation and the Beenstock Home for the aged.

AIHA publishes a monthly newsletter to its tenants called Botei Yisroel.

AIHA is a member of the Solomon Project, a group of six small housing associations.^[3]

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