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Portsmouth Housing Register

The Housing Act 1996 requires us to keep a housing register from which offers of secure housing will be made.  We are required to give "reasonable preference" when allocating housing to the following:

• people occupying unsanitary or overcrowded housing or otherwise living in unsatisfactory housing conditions
• people occupying housing accommodation which his temporary or occupied on insecure terms
• families with dependent children
• households consisting of or including someone who is expecting a child
• households consisting of or including someone with a particular need for settled accommodation on medical or welfare grounds
• households whose social or economic circumstances are such that they have difficulty in securing settled accommodation
• people to whom we owe a duty under the following homelessness legislation under Part VII Housing Act 1996 and Part III Housing Act 1985

It also requires that additional preference be given to households within the definition at (e) consisting of someone with a particular need for settled accommodation on medical or welfare grounds, who cannot reasonably be expected to find settled accommodation for themselves in the foreseeable future.

How to apply

If you would like to apply to go on the waiting list, or would like more information, contact us at the following address.

• Write to us at
  Housing Options
  Civic Offices
  Guildhall Square
  Portsmouth, PO1 2AX
• call us on 9283 4989
• email us at housing.options@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

Associated documents:

• Housing Allocation Policy  (0.27 MB)

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