Housing and housing benefits

Finding a home

Join the Buckinghamshire Housing Register, look for temporary accommodation.

How we can help you with food, bills and living costs.

If you are unemployed or on a low income, there are benefits you can get to help pay the costs of where you live.

Find a place to live or get help with housing issues.

If you get benefits for housing, you must tell us if there are any changes that may affect how much money you get.

You have been requested to complete a Housing Benefit review form.

If you have been paid too much in benefits, find out how to pay back the money.

Request repairs to a private rented property, get help recovering a deposit, report harassment or an illegal eviction.

Find information about properties that are let to 3 or more people, forming 2 or more households and apply for a license.

Find out how you can make a real change the lives of rough sleepers in your local area.

How a tenant's Housing Benefit may be paid directly to you, and how to tell us about any changes that affect how much money they get.

Learn about affordable warmth and sustainability at home.

If you know anyone who is being paid housing benefits they should not get, let us know.

Get assistance with home repairs, find out about local land charges, request advice around mortgage and leasehold problems.

Mobile home site owners need to apply for inclusion on the fit and proper person register.

The Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Space) gives a person with problem debt the right to legal protections from their creditors.