Four Million Homes – An A-Z advice guide for residents in social housing

Four Million Homes Website

This website gives general advice for all social housing issues. It includes:

Adaptations for disability, ageing and health

You can get adaptations to your home to help you or your family live more independently. These can be small changes like grab rails or bigger ones such as stairlifts or extensions.

Allocations for social housing

How social housing is allocated, who gets priority, and what you can do if you disagree with a decision.

Complaints to landlords

A brief guide about escalating complaints and getting help from the Housing Ombudsman.

Damp and mould

Awaab’s Law gives social housing tenants stronger rights when it comes to dealing with damp and mould.

Succession

Succession is when a tenancy passes to someone else after the tenant dies. The law only allows one succession. If the tenancy has already been passed on before, it cannot happen again.

PLUS many more topics. All the above can be found at A-Z of social housing – Four Million Homes.

Please check the “Four million homes” website; a UK government-backed training and empowerment program for residents in England’s four million social housing properties: https://www.fourmillionhomes.org/ for lots of useful guides, recorded webinars and online training sessions:

There is also information about training and free webinars:

How to guides: https://www.fourmillionhomes.org/how-to-guides-for-getting-things-done/
Online training: https://www.fourmillionhomes.org/events/category/free-training-events/online/ and training videos and notes: https://www.fourmillionhomes.org/category/videos/training-videos/
Free webinars: https://www.fourmillionhomes.org/events/category/webinars/ and to watch past webinars: https://www.fourmillionhomes.org/category/videos/recorded-webinars/

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