About Gateway

Gateway Housing Association is the new name for Bethnal Green and Victoria Park Housing Association (BGVPHA) and Labo Housing Association. These two community-based housing associations merged on 31 March 2008.

Having worked together in Tower Hamlets for over 20 years, we believe that we will be able to achieve more for the local community by joining forces.

Why Gateway?

We chose the name Gateway for three reasons, which draw on our history and describe our ambition.

1. Tower Hamlets has been the traditional gateway for migrant communities entering the UK.

2. We operate within east London, which forms part of the Thames Gateway region.

3. We believe that decent affordable housing is a gateway into a good quality of life for people on below average incomes.

Our mission

We aim to promote our residents' well-being through providing:

• good homes;
• good places to live; and
• excellent and improving services.

We aim to help:

• raise the quality of life of local people in housing need through the provision of high quality, affordable housing and excellent services;
• create mixed and sustainable communities within east London for people of all ethnic backgrounds; and
• challenge inequality, injustice and poverty when providing housing.

We will seek to become an acknowledged expert in building and sustaining social cohesion and integration within our diverse communities.