Applying for Housing

The City Council is changing the way in which it allocates social housing to anyone applying for housing or applying to transfer: HAMPSHIRE HOME CHOICE is the new choice based lettings system that will be live in Spring 2009.

Accommodation for Rent
Hampshire Home Choice is a partnership between Winchester, East Hampshire and Havant, enabling you to move across any of those three areas. We will also work in partnership with various social housing providers. Together we maintain a Joint Housing Register of households requiring acommodation in any of the three areas. This enables households, through a single application, to be considered for a much wider variety of accommodation and helps all the parties make best use of their housing stock. If you would like to find out more about Hampshire Home Choice please select the link on the left.

Low Cost Home Ownership

• Properties to Part Buy
  The City Council also works with local housing providers to develop various Low Cost Home Ownership schemes. The aim of these is to help households onto the housing ladder through shared equity or part rent part by schemes which the Council cannot directly provide itself.

• Assistance for Key Workers to Obtain Housing
  The Key Worker housing scheme is also run within the district by one of our partners, providing assistance for those in essential public sector jobs to obtain housing.

Garage Rental
As well as dwelling accommodation we also have a number of garages available thoughout the district for rent.