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Housing advice and options : Housing Options
Adur Council's housing advice and options section provides free and confidential advice on a wide range of housing-related issues. The section can give advice to tenants, homeowners, and people who are homeless or are threatened with homelessness. It can also advise you if you have a mortgage debt, require benefit advice or you have been threatened with illegal eviction.
We can also offer advice concerning housing options in the district, access to private rented accommodation and low cost ownership schemes.
For more information please contact Housing Advice and Options between : Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 5:30pm (call to make an appointment).
See also :
which includes information about :
- Before you move
- Am I in a position to move?
- Do I need to move?
- Can I afford to move?
- How big does my property need to be?
- How much can I afford?
- Where do I want to live?
- Do I need a guarantor?
- Single and under 25? - single room rent
- How do I look for accommodation?
- Where to look
- Room in a shared house
- Self contained accommodation
- What do I do once I have found a property?
- The viewing
- Safety first
- Is it affordable?
- Holding fee
- Rent in advance and deposit
- Inventory
- Rent payments
- Moving in
- Housing Benefit (Local Housing Allowance)
- Services
- People to contact
- Signing the tenancy
- Useful contacts
West Sussex Flatshare and House shares with Room Buddies
Sometimes the most cost effective way to find somewhere to live is by sharing a house with other like minded people.
West Sussex Flatshare and House shares on-line can be found at Room Buddies - for more information see their website :
Flat and house sharing with SpareRoom.co.uk
With over 400,000 registered users and 1,000+ new users signing up daily SpareRoom.co.uk offer a comprehensive UK-wide service - for more information see their website :
Homeshare
What is Homeshare?
Homeshare
is a simple way of helping people to help each other. A Homeshare involves
two people with different sets of needs, both of whom also have something
to offer.
Firstly, people who have a home that they are willing to share. These people are known as Householders and are at a stage in their life where they need some support with carrying out daily tasks like cooking, cleaning or maybe would like some companionship. NB the support cannot be personal care like dressing or bathing.
Secondly, people who need accommodation and who are willing to give some help, up to 10 hours a week, in exchange for somewhere to stay. These people are known as Homesharers.
By putting these two people together Homeshare manages to find the Householder the help, support and security they need. At the same time Homeshare finds the Homesharer a place to call home, rent free and in an area or property that may have been financially out of their reach. Homeshare has the real advantage of being 'power neutral'. Both the Householder and the Homesharer are gaining from the arrangement and can both be seen as 'service users'.
- Homeshare Information Sheet 1 - Introduction to Homeshare (.PDF 55kb)
- Homeshare Information Sheet 2 - The Homeshare Agreement and Licence to Occupy (.PDF 50kb)
- Homeshare Information Sheet 3 - Responsibilities in Homeshare (.PDF 50kb)
- Homeshare
Information Sheet 4 - Checks, references and risk (.PDF 51kb)
- See also :
- Homeshare on the West Sussex County Council website (http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/redirect/?oid=[com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.PressRelease:{id=2570035}])
- National Association of Adult Placement Services (NAAPS) website (www.naaps.org.uk)
