EHDC: Housing Options
The Housing Options Team are here to provide free information, assistance and housing advice to residents of East Herts to help keep you in your home or to help you find an alternative. If you need housing advice because you are homeless or threatened with homelessness please complete an online referral to the Housing Options Service via link below and a member of the team will call you back:
Link to the Housing Assistance Referral Portal for if you are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless within the next 56 days.
Joining the Council’s Housing Register - We maintain a Housing Needs Register for households that cannot afford to buy or rent in the private market and need affordable rented housing provided by registered providers operating in the district. The application is via the following link Applications to housing register
Who can use this service?
If you are aged 18 you can apply to join the Housing Register provided:
- You are not ineligible for an allocation of social housing due to your immigrations status; and
- You do not have an annual gross household income of £60,000 or more; and
- You are not disqualified as a result of unacceptable behaviour; and
- You are not disqualified as a result of housing related debts
How are services delivered?
Follow the link to the Housing Assisstance Referral Portal and we will be in touch.
Housingoptions@eastherts.gov.uk
Housingoptions@eastherts.gov.uk
01279 655261
Wallfields, Pegs Ln,
Hertford
SG13 8EQ
