Homelessness Advice

Homelessness Advice

If you are homeless or threatened with homelessness within the next 8 weeks our Housing Solutions Team will:

• assess your situation
• provide you with a Personal Housing Plan

Your Personal Housing Plan will set out reasonable steps for you to take to prevent you becoming homeless, or to help you find somewhere to live.

Although we may have a duty to prevent your homelessness, or support you to find somewhere to live, this doesn’t mean that in all cases we have a duty to provide accommodation itself.

Chronic shortage of housing – If you are homeless you are very unlikely to be offered a council or housing association property due to the chronic shortage of housing. There are approximately 2000 households in Tendring who are currently on the Housing Register and there are very few available properties.  The help we are likely to offer you if you are homeless is advice and support for you to find privately rented accommodation.

If you are homeless, and you do not have a local connection to Tendring, you may be referred to a local authority where you do have a connection (unless you are at risk of violence or domestic abuse in that area).

Complete an on-line Self-Referral form

If you are homeless, or at risk of becoming homeless within the next 8 weeks you need to register and complete a self-referral form to Tendring following the link below:

Housing Jigsaw – register online for homelessness advice

We will contact you once we have received your online form and we may need to ask you further questions about your circumstances.

We will also ask you to upload some or all of the following documents:

• Proof of ID for all household members, such as passports or birth certificates
• Proof of homelessness
• Any notice served by your landlord
• Proof of pregnancy or any medical conditions
• Bank statements, wage slips and proof of any benefit entitlement

Please note: We only allow 1 week for you to upload the supporting documents. If you have not uploaded all of the requested documents within 1 week your application will be closed.

Once we received all the information we have requested we will advise you of the next steps.  This may include booking you a telephone appointment with a Housing Solutions Officer.  It is important for you to be open and honest at your assessment so we can give you the correct advice and support.

‍Accommodation Found

Feel free to fill in our Details of Accommodation Found form. Please note that this form can only be used, when you have submitted a homeless application to Tendring District Council

If you are not homeless but need advice & support

If you are not threatened with homelessness within the next eight weeks, you can seek further advice below:

• Struggling to pay your rent or mortgage
• Asked to leave by family or friends
• Relationship Breakdown
• Domestic Abuse

If you are sleeping rough please call our contact centre on 01255 686868 and ask to speak to the Housing Solutions Team.

If you wish to report someone sleeping rough please report this via street link www.streetlink.org.uk