FOR PROPERTY INVESTORS & FUTURE PROVIDERS
The Book Investors AND Future Providers Need to Read First
Whether you’re funding supported living and children’s homes property, or wondering if becoming a provider is right for you, Supported Living 101 cuts through the noise with the honest, first-of-its-kind guide this sector has been missing.
Pre-order the eBook now. All formats, eBook, hardback and paperback, publish and become available to read on 9 September 2026.
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Who This Book Is For
For Property Investors
Understand the five different supported living and children’s homes models, how funding and Housing Benefit actually work, what a genuine long lease is really worth, and the questions that separate a safe investment from an expensive mistake.
For Aspiring Providers
Learn what it really takes to become a registered supported living or children’s home provider, from commissioning and referral pathways to the governance and standards that keep a service safe, sustainable and ready to grow.
What's Inside
There is no lease length that can turn the wrong property into the right home. There is no rent figure that can compensate for a provider with weak governance.
Seventeen children’s homes sat empty in one county while the same Local Authority reported a shortage of suitable homes. That paradox of empty homes amid desperate need sits at the heart of this book.
Would you allow someone you love to live there? If the answer is no, it is not good enough for somebody else’s family either.
Three Forewords, Because This Book Sits at Three Crossroads
Social care. Property investment. And the people at the centre of both. Endorsed by leaders from each world.
There are books that explain a sector, and there are books that challenge the way a sector thinks about itself. Supported Living 101 does both.
Nick Barnett
Chief Executive Officer, The Caldecott Foundation
Would you allow someone you love to live there? If the answer is no, it is not good enough for somebody else’s family either. That isn’t sentimentality. It is the single principle that should guide every investor in this sector.
Dillon Dhanecha
Founder, HousingPledge.org
Anyone can write a guide to a property sector. Far fewer can write one with this much heart behind every page, because far fewer have lived close enough to the reality of it to know what actually matters.
Katy Wilson
Property Investor, Educator & Mentor
What Readers Are Saying
I speak to investors every week who bought into supported living on a promise rather than a plan. This is the book I would hand every one of them first, honest, clear, and written by someone who actually understands how the sector works.
Nisha Patel
Founder and Director, Care Property Hub
This book is exactly what I’d expect from her: honest, well researched, and unwilling to sell you a dream that doesn’t hold up. If you’re serious about investing in supported living, read this before you read anything else.
Rich Eyre
Property Investor, Co-Founder The Property and Entrepreneur Summit
This book is the corrective the sector badly needs. It never loses sight of the fact that these are homes for vulnerable people first and investments second.
Pallavi Sharma
Property Investor and Former Social Worker
It makes clear that behind every property, every lease and every funding arrangement is a vulnerable person who needs a safe, suitable and secure place to call home. Read this book before you invest, it could save you from making some very expensive mistakes.
Cynthia Odoi
Founder, Unity Accessible Homes Ltd
A Note From Denise
I wrote this book because I have seen this sector from both sides of the front door, as a therapeutic foster carer, as the parent of a daughter in Specialised Supported Housing, and as someone who now helps investors and providers get this right. I have also seen what happens when it goes wrong. This is the honest, practical guide I wish someone had handed me at the start.
Denise Searle, Founder & CEO, Lifefix
Be Among the First to Read It
Supported Living 101, the first book to speak honestly to both investors and providers about this sector.
Pre-order the eBook now. All formats, eBook, hardback and paperback, publish and become available to read on 9 September 2026.