We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Housing Benefit or Local Housing Allowance (LHA) - rates, eligibility, claim form, calculator, appeals, 'Discretionary Housing Payment'.
Housing Benefit can help you pay your rent if you’re unemployed, on a low…
You may get help with all or part of your rent. There’s no set amount of…
You’ll need to provide some information and evidence to support your claim…
Housing Benefit is being replaced by Universal Credit. Most people will…
You need to report a change of circumstances for you and anyone else in…
Housing Benefit will not cover heating, hot water, energy or food. If you…
Apply for council housing through your local council - you'll usually have to join a waiting list
How to apply for a council house or flat - housing waiting lists, types of tenancies, the Right to Buy scheme and repairs, complaining about the council
You apply for council housing through your local council. Each council has…
Your tenancy agreement is a legal document and tells you all the rules…
You’re likely to be responsible for things like: fixing a curtain or…
Follow these steps if you have a problem with your council housing:…
You’re likely to lose your tenancy and you could lose your right to…
Under the Right to Buy scheme, you can apply to buy your council home if:…
Your right to buy your council home - including how to apply, who is eligible, discounts available and where to get help and advice.
Apply for financial help to make your home suitable for a disabled person
How to apply for a housing association home, types of tenancy agreement and the Right to Acquire
Information about Housing Benefit from your local council - apply to help pay your rent
Apply to rent a garage from the local council - there may be a waiting list
Exchanging your council or housing association property if you want to move house - tenants, rules, permission from landlords, mutual exchange
The RTB1 form is the notice claiming the Right to Buy that tenants need to complete.
Buy your housing association home - including how to apply, who is eligible, discounts available and where to get help and advice.
Find sheltered or supported housing from your council with facilities such as alarms or wardens: for elderly, disabled or vulnerable people
If you're under 18, you cannot usually rent your own home, but you'll be on the priority list for council housing - your rights and what happens if you want to leave home
Apply to the tribunal about a rent increase decision, changes to a lease or a decision about a council house, park home or caravan, in England.
This form is for housing association tenants who wish to apply to buy their home through the Right to Acquire scheme.
Request a repair to a council property to your local council - urgent problems, Right to Repair, health, safety, security
Get information from your local council about the right to buy your council house or flat, including where to send the application form
The RTB6 form is for a tenant to use if their landlord is not completing parts of the Right to Buy application within set time limits.
The RTB8 form is for a tenant to use if they do not get a response to the initial notice of delay form.
The RTB2 form is the notice that a council sends to a tenant who has applied to buy their home through the Right to Buy scheme.
Do not include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).