Welcome to HARAH

Welcome to the online home of HARAH – the Hampshire Alliance for Rural Affordable Housing.

Our vision is to ensure that rural communities are sustainable and inclusive by enabling an increase in the supply of affordable housing to meet local needs.

Who are we?

HARAH was formed in 2005. The partnership grew out of the steering group for the Rural Housing Enablers, which had been meeting for 4 years prior to the formation of HARAH . Our main aim is to increase the supply of affordable housing in the rural villages of Hampshire, to ensure local people are able to afford to live in the places where they were brought up, work, or have family connections, and in doing so to help strengthen rural communities.

The members of HARAH are the Hampshire Rural Housing Enablers (RHEs) hosted by Community Action Hampshire, the Homes and Communities Agency, Hampshire County Council, the six rural local authorities in Hampshire - Basingstoke and Deane, East Hampshire, Hart, New Forest, Test Valley, Winchester and New Forest National Park Authority.

HARAH has selected The Hyde Group as its development partner. This means that Hyde develop and manage the affordable homes for HARAH. Hyde were selected through a competitive selection process involving a number of registered housing providers.

Officers within the HARAH partnership work as a team, together with the local community, usually represented by the Parish Council, to identify local housing need and develop suitable affordable housing to meet the need.