Kingston Churches Housing Association (KCHA) is a locally based housing association operating mainly in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, but with additional properties in Elmbridge Borough Council, Guildford Borough Council and the London Borough of Merton.
The Association was formed in 1964 by a group of Christian people and opened its first property in 1967. Since then we have grown steadily to our current size, and at the end of 2007 we owned and managed 246 units of housing. This is made up of a mix of general needs housing (for single people, couples, single parents and families), sheltered housing for the elderly, three student houses, and a shared house for the young single homeless.
Much of our housing consists of older properties that have been acquired and refurbished, but we also have some new build schemes including two consortium developments with other associations at Donald Woods Gardens in Tolworth, and California Road/England Way in New Malden.
The distribution of our housing units by local authority area at the end of 2007 was:
Kingston – 208 units Elmbridge – 16 units
Guildford – 16 units Merton – 7 units
