The risk of closure for supported housing providers: member survey 2025

In July 2025, the National Housing Federation surveyed members who provide supported housing to find out how many were at risk of closing schemes. After years of funding cuts, many supported housing providers are having to make difficult decisions about the future of vital services. 

This survey is a follow up to a survey the NHF ran in April 2024. Since those results, the government’s Spending Review announcement in June 2025 has further increased concerns for providers as no specific funding was announced for vital supported services.   

The 2025 survey  

As part of our study, we received responses from 126 members who provide supported housing, including housing for older people. The respondents represented 60% of NHF members’ supported housing and 55% of all supported housing owned by housing associations in England. 
Key findings include: 

More than half of respondents (56%, 71 housing associations) said that without an urgent commitment to long-term sustainable funding for supported housing, some of their supported housing schemes are likely to close or be decommissioned.  

More than a fifth of respondents (22%, 28 housing associations) said that they will have to seriously consider ending provision of supported housing altogether.   

In total, more than 50,000 homes could be at risk of closure or decommissioning across 71 housing associations. 

Our recommendations 

Without the right urgent and long-term funding from the government, supported housing still faces a worsening funding crisis, more service closures, and even more pressure on our vital public services. This includes more pressure on the NHS, social care, homelessness services, and the criminal justice system.  

We need the government to give supported housing providers a lifeline to stay afloat. We recommend that the government acts now and:  

• Urgently commits to long-term, sustainable funding for support services in supported homes. This needs to be done at the Autumn Budget and in the forthcoming housing and homelessness strategies.    
• Creates an emergency fund for supported-housing support services in the Autumn Budget to prevent more schemes from having to close their doors this year.     
• Allocates enough of the new Affordable Homes Programme funding to the building of new supported and older persons’ housing and improve the conditions for bidding for small organisations. 

If you have any questions about this survey, please get in touch using the contact details below.