Homehavens wasn't dreamed up in an office. It comes from knowing, first-hand, what it's like to be between homes — and believing nobody should have to choose between an unaffordable short-let, someone's sofa on borrowed goodwill, or nowhere at all.
Everyone has in-between moments: a tenancy that ends before the next begins, a relationship that finishes, a sale that falls through, a new city with nothing lined up. Those moments are stressful enough without the roof being in question. Homehavens exists to take the stress out of the in-between — a safe, fairly-priced room, from someone kind, for three days to a month, without charity and without exploitation.
I come from a working-class background, and I've lived the problem this platform solves. I've been between homes. I've lived in vans and in communities. I've watched friends go through the same gap — the scramble, the stress, the quiet indignity of having nowhere settled while life reorganises itself.
My working life has been broad rather than corporate — I've been a musician, a builder, a sole trader, and a traveller. What all of that teaches you is to be practical, self-reliant, and good with people. Homehavens is those lessons, pointed at the problem I know best.
It starts in Bristol — my city — with hosts we meet personally, one conversation at a time. And who knows — maybe a stay leads to a flourishing friendship, or a future tenancy with someone you really get on with. Once we prove it works here, it can work everywhere.
— Theodore, founder of Homehavens