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Current housing situation

In housing need – not homeless

(This does not apply if you have missed rent payments, or caused nuisance or harassment.)

Living or staying with family or friends (have your own bedroom).

Couples without children needing independent accommodation.

(If you are living with friends or family and sharing a bedroom, see points for overcrowding over the page.)

10

If you would like a permanent tenancy and are currently on a temporary lease or renting privately.

5

(This does not apply if you have missed rent payments, or caused nuisance or harassment.)

• You are likely to be evicted in the near future (for example, your current landlord has served a notice and is going to evict you – court proceedings have begun, or you are a lodger has and you have been asked to leave).
• Your parents or friends are selling their home which will leave you homeless.
• Your home is in an extremely poor condition (in other words a closing order has been served on you by a local authority or environmental health have agreed your property is dangerous to health).

15

Split family (living apart)

(This does not apply if you have missed rent payments, or caused nuisance or harassment.)

If you are married and you are forced to live apart (with or without children) because you have been evicted or your home has been repossessed.

15

If you and your partner have a child but live apart and would like to live together as a family. You must give details of addresses with proof of the reason for your separation. We may need to investigate this. Or, if you live too far away from places such as work or school.

10

Split family (living together)

If your relationship has broken down. You must provide proof that you have to leave your current home. This only applies when none of the other conditions apply.

15

Statutory or non-statutory homeless

(This does not apply if you have missed rent payments, or caused nuisance or harassment.)

You have nowhere to live and are living rough or in temporary accommodation - for example, a hostel.

Temporarily staying with friends or family (in other words sleeping on a sofa).

If a warrant for eviction has been served.

20

Escaping domestic violence

If you have evidence, a police report or an injunction.

20

If the only proof you have is a crime reference number or similar.

7

Are you, or a member of your household, experiencing racial harassment or violence?

Victim has evidence, police report, injunction and so on.

20

If the only proof you have is a crime reference number or similar.

7

Are you, or a member of your household, experiencing any other harassment or violence?

Victim has evidence, police report, injunction and so on.

20

If the only proof you have is a crime reference number or similar.

7

Do you have use of a garden?

Children aged between 18 months and nine years.

3

Children aged between 9 years and  15 years.

2

Households with no children or children aged 16 years and over.

1

Overcrowding – This section applies to your household. The following list shows the size of the property and relevant number of people to live in each type of property. Each extra person in the household scores points (two points for each person under the age of five, five points for each person over the age of five). We will award points to the person in the property that results in the household becoming overcrowded. In other words, we would award two to five points to a single parent or couple with two children of the same sex in a two-bedroom property for three people. This will depend on the children’s ages. The points for overcrowding will apply to the youngest child.

Single person

Bedsit

One-bedroom flat or house

Two-bedroom flat or house if you need help from a carer overnight

Two people (couple)

One-bedroom flat or house

Two-bedroom flat or house if you need help from a carer overnight

A single parent or couple with one child.

Two-bedroom flat or house for three people.

Two adults (not a couple)

Two-bedroom flat or house

A single parent or couple and two children of the same sex with less than four years’ age difference.

Two-bedroom house

A single parent or couple and two children of the same sex with more than four years’ age difference.

Three-bedroom house for four people

A single parent or couple and three children of different sexes.

Three-bedroom house for four people

A single parent or couple and two children of same sex with less than four years’ age difference.

Three-bedroom house for five people

A single parent or couple and three children of same sex with more than four years’ age difference.

Four-bedroom house

• We will treat a pregnant woman as one person until the 28^th week of her pregnancy. (We will need a ‘certificate of expected date of confinement’.)
• If you have part custody of a child, it will only count if you have custody for 50% or more of the time. (We will need to see a court order.)

Having more rooms than you need (this applies only to local-authority tenants and tenants of registered social landlords): 10 points for each spare room. (Based on above table).

If you currently live in a flat (only one category of the first five in this section applies to each household. The situation giving the highest points will be the one we use) – we can use point 6 with any of the others.

1 Children under nine years above the 3^rd floor

5

2 Children under five years living on the 1^st floor or above

4

3 Children between five and nine years living on the 1^st floor or above

3

4 Children between nine and 15 years living on the 1^st floor and above

2

5 All other households in flats

1

6 If no lift is available for the 2^nd floor and above

1

Facilities (We do not award points  for this if you are sharing with your own family)

No bath or shower

5

Shared bath or shower

2

No toilet

5

Shared toilet

2

No kitchen

5

Shared kitchen

2

No living room

2

Shared living room

1

No hot water

5

Heating: electric fire, paraffin or Calor gas only

2

No use of garden

1

Current condition of home

Poor (we need evidence or to visit your home)

5

Fair (we need evidence or to visit your home)

2

Satisfactory

0

Health factors and disabilities

Serious If the accommodation we offered would significantly improve your quality of life, in other words, your current facilities and surroundings affect your health (impossible to use the bath, your property is on a steep hill and you have difficulty walking and so on).

15

Minor If the accommodation we offered would slightly improve your quality of life, in other words, your facilities and surroundings are difficult to use or make life difficult.

7

Are there any safety issues that affect your present housing situation?

Give the reason for awarding points for example, a railway line.

2

Your experience of co-operatives or similar voluntary-sector organisations.

If you, or a member of your household, have a lot of experience working as an officer of a co-operative, or similar, and proves their ongoing commitment.

20

If you, or a member of your household, have some experience of working as an officer of a co-operative, or similar, and proves your ongoing commitment.

15

If you, or a member of your household, have some experience of work as an officer, committee member or active member of a co-operative, or similar, or have relevant experience and skills and prove a commitment to putting them to use for the co-operative.

10

If you, or a member of your household, have skills which may be relevant to a co-operative or you can show you understand co-operatives and appear willing to take part (for example, have chosen co-operative housing on a  local-authority waiting list).

5

Waiting time

We award points for each six-month period you are living in the current conditions.

2