Welcome to the Ownership Options in Scotland web site
Ownership Options specialise in the homeownership issues affecting disabled people in Scotland.
Our work includes:
- providing advice and information about homebuying for disabled people and their carers
- co-ordinating individual homebuying projects
- lobbying to remove the financial, legal and practical barriers to ownership
- providing training and consultancy for the public and private sectors
We are non-profit making, and registered as a charity in Scotland.
This site is aimed at people supporting disabled people to buy, such as financial advisors, solicitors, and architects as well as social workers and housing advisors. It contains information on many aspects of home ownership from raising the money to buy a property, to designing a house from scratch. If you are disabled, you may also find the original Ownership Options website of interest. It explains the process of buying in a more descriptive way. Housing Associations and other Registered Social Landlords who operate the LIFT (formerly Homestake) scheme will find information about how it can be used to meet disabled people's needs on our Homestake website.
Our publications, including leaflets and Annual Reports, are available for downloading here.
Registration is free and helps us to provide you with information most relevant to you. We obviously respect your privacy and do not release your details to any other organisation.
If you have a question about our work feel free to contact us.
Our newsletter, Optional Extra, is produced monthly. Apart from news about what’s happening at Ownership Options, and in the wider world of housing and disabled people, the newsletter will highlight cases of good practice, and social policy issues which we feel need to be addressed, illustrated by case studies where appropriate. If you would like to receive the newsletter please email optionalextra@oois.org.uk quoting "subscribe" in the subject line.
