Housing options: Finding a home

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» Finding a place to live
If you have nowhere to stay and are not eligible for assistance by the council, emergency accommodation provided by the voluntary sector may be your only option.

» Applying for council housing
We are not able to offer a home to everybody who applies for housing. For many it will mean waiting for years before they can be housed. Therefore, our Housing Policy and Scheme of Allocations (pdf 306KB) attempts to ensure that those households with the greatest and the most pressing need for housing get housed first based on the points and banding system.

» Choice based lettings
These pages provide information customers most ask about the Locata Choice Based Lettings Scheme – the scheme that replaced the points system, so that instead of waiting for the council to offer you somewhere to live, you can bid for properties that interest you.