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We offer a range of housing and outreach support services to support vulnerable people. These services help those people to:

of households or around 20,714 were renting privately from a landlord or letting agent, or were living “rent free”. Once registered and logged in select "homelessness assistance". You will need to complete a series of questions about your household and housing situation, please ensure that you give as much detail as possible. The CAB is a charity that gives free, confidential information and advice to help people with their money, legal, consumer and other problems. The service aims to provide the advice people need for the problems they face, and to improve the policies and principles that affect people’s lives. Trained advisers help write letters, make phone calls, negotiate with creditors and represent clients at tribunals and courts.Choice Based Lettings is a way of allocating social housing. It gives people seeking accommodation with a social landlord the choice of the type of property and area of the city they would like to live. The Government’s Help for Households campaign– find out how to support your income, get help with costs of energy, childcare and transport

Care and Repair Peterborough assists disabled, aged and vulnerable people to adapt and maintain their homes and where appropriate access funding for work. The agency is part of Peterborough City Council and is in an excellent position to help clients access housing grants, including Under the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 from 1 October 2018, certain public authorities are required to notify a housing authority of service users they consider may be homeless or threatened with homelessness within 56 days. The public authorities included in the duty are as follows: Having a dog doesn't stop rough sleepers coming into accommodation. We have some accommodation settings that allow dogs. How you can help our work Healthy Happy Holidays – provides food and activities for children eligible for benefit related free school meals We work with partners across the city to ensure we meet the holistic needs of rough sleepers. This includes:If you need support in your home, particularly support which helps maintain your tenancy or will prevent homelessness, “floating” support may be needed. It is called floating because it is not tied to a particular building or housing scheme, it can be provided to almost any type of home. At the homelessness interview one of our officers will discuss your housing situation and the possible options available to you. They will want to know details such as: When you approach us as homeless one of our officers will assess your application in line with the Homeless Reduction Act 2017 procedure (PDF). The Act sets out guidelines about who may be eligible for assistance. Our officer has to make a decision using the information that you give them during the homelessness interview. You can find independent and confidential advice for victims of crime using the Victims and Witness Hub.

If you believe someone has nowhere to sleep tonight, or is under threat of homelessness within the next 56 days, please use these on-line forms to provide as much information as possible, with the person’s consent. The aim is for organisations to work together to try to prevent someone becoming homeless, wherever possible. We receive your application to join the Housing Register. After receiving your documents, we assess your application under our Housing Allocations Policy. Being homeless means to have nowhere permanent and safe to call a home. Rough sleeping is a type of homelessness where someone finds themselves sleeping on the street.There are a number of government schemes available to make buying a home more affordable. You can use the “own your own home” on-line tool to find out which scheme is right for you by answering some simple questions. The schemes include: of households or around 48,059 owned their own home including those with a mortgage, owned outright and including 1,167 households in “shared ownership”.