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Factsheets & Public Advice Guides
All guides and factsheets have been written by our team of legal experts.
Homelessness
- Priority need of former prisoners
- Applying as homeless
- Applying as homeless flowchart
- Applying as homeless: intentionally homeless
- Applying as homeless: local connection
- Applying as homeless: offers of accommodation
- Applying as homeless: people from abroad
- Applying as homeless: priority need
- Applying as homeless: suitable accommodation
- Applying as homeless: tips on temporary accommodation
- Brexit: EEA nationals
- Habitual residence test
- Help for care leavers 18+
- Homelessness (fact sheet in partnership with National Debtline)
- Homelessness: 16 & 17 year-olds
- Homelessness: young people 18+
- Personal housing plans
Housing options
Benefits
Repairs and safety
Eviction
- Advice and representation at court
- Breathing space: get more time to deal with rent arrears
- Covid-19 and housing
- Does your landlord need a court order to evict you?
- Eviction if your landlord is repossessed
- Going to court during the Covid-19 pandemic
- Harassment by a private landlord
- Illegal eviction by a private landlord
- Possession proceedings: being evicted
- Possession proceedings: going to court
- Possession proceedings: the court’s powers
- Section 21: accelerated proceedings
- Section 21: defences from 1 October 2018
- Section 21: notice periods
- Section 21: restrictions
Renting
- 10 rights of private tenants
- Discrimination in private renting
- How you can end your tenancy
- Introductory council tenancies
- Is your home an HMO?
- Joint tenants
- Mobile home owners
- Mutual exchange
- Succession: your right to inherit a council tenancy
- Taking in a lodger: Money matters
- Taking in a lodger: Your obligations
Costs of renting
Mortgages and debt
Court action and complaints