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Local Housing Authorities
Local Housing Authorities are your local council’s department for administering their housing stock and deciding who has priority and must be offered affordable housing first.
Local Housing authorities allocate their housing according to a points or band system that decides who has the highest priority. You might then find that your local housing authority has delegated the control and maintenance of its local affordable housing stock to a third party such as a housing association or a community Housing project.
Local Housing authorities offer affordable housing in many shapes and sizes from Apartments & Flats to Bungalows and Detached Housing. It depends on what your needs are and what type of affordable housing is available in your location.
While local authorities don't have to have a housing register, in practice, most will keep a housing register or waiting list of people who have applied to rent accommodation. You usually have to fill in an application form to apply for local authority accommodation.
Local authorities have to publish information explaining how they make decisions about offering accommodation and the system they use to give priority to applicants on their waiting lists. How priorities are decided may vary from one local authority to another, but factors normally taken into account will be:
- poor health made worse by housing conditions
- lack of, or shared use of some facility, for example a bathroom or toilet
- an inadequate number of bedrooms for the size of your family
- length of time you have lived in the area
- age (where access to sheltered or warden supported accommodation is under consideration)
- length of time on the waiting list
- separation from your family (including a family which is overseas) because of inadequate accommodation
- homelessness
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