The Penwith Housing Association is a social housing provider based in Cornwall

Cornwall

Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...

, UK. It was formed in 1994 following the sale of Penwith

Penwith

Penwith was a local government district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, whose council was based in Penzance. The district covered all of the Penwith peninsula, the toe-like promontory of land at the western end of Cornwall and which included an area of land to the east that fell outside the...

 District Council's housing stock. The housing association

Housing association

Housing associations in the United Kingdom are independent not-for-profit bodies that provide low-cost "social housing" for people in housing need. Any trading surplus is used to maintain existing homes and to help finance new ones...

is one of the largest providers of housing in Cornwall with the number of residents being counted in the tens of thousands. The housing association now operates beyond the Penwith district and has housing developments throughout Cornwall.

External links

The Association`s website

Penzance Housing on Purely Penzance - The complete guide to Penzance