Who can apply?
The Housing Application form is for anyone seeking access to social housing, including current tenants whose homes are no longer suitable. All applicants, including existing tenants, must meet the eligibility criteria to apply through Havering’s Housing Register. For more details, we recommend checking the Housing Allocation Scheme, available on our website via the Havering Housing Allocation Scheme.

About the online form
Only one Housing Application form needs to be completed to be considered for both Havering Council properties and those managed by our Housing Association partners. You will be asked information about yourself, your household and everyone to be rehoused with you. To help the process go smoothly, it will be helpful to have all the information ready before you begin.

Retrieval process
If you are unable to complete the Housing Application in one session, you can save your progress and return to it within 7 days.
To retrieve a saved application, you will need the main applicant’s Surname, Date of Birth and National Insurance Number.
Please note, Havering Council will not be able to view any details contained in your application, until it has been fully submitted.

What happens next?
Once you have completed and submitted the form, your Housing Application will be forwarded to the Housing Choice and Applications team for an initial assessment.
You will need to provide documentation to support your application. It may take up to 42 days to be contacted. During this time, your application will be reviewed to determine whether you meet the eligibility and qualification criteria for joining the Housing Register. Once a decision has been made, the outcome of your assessment will be sent to you by email.

Uploading supporting documentation
You can upload supporting documents via My Havering Portal after your Housing Application has been submitted.

Already on the Housing Register - Change in Circumstances
If you are already on the housing register and want to notify a change of circumstances, you can do this via My Havering Portal.

Problems completing the application form
Please use our Ask Housing contact form if you have any issues completing the application. Alternatively you can contact the Housing Choice and Applications Team on 01708 434130 or email housingapplications@havering.gov.uk

Privacy statement and information sharing
The information you provide in the pre-assessment from will be used to assess your social housing application.

We are permitted by law, in order to prevent and detect fraud or any other criminal activity, to share some of the information provided by you with other agencies making lawful requests for such information.

In addition, we may take part in data matching exercises, for example under the National Fraud Initiative, to verify the information which you provide. We may also cross-check the information you provide with credit reference agencies or through the National Association of Fraud Investigators for the purposes of fraud prevention. This sort of data sharing is in addition to the sharing we carry out with your consent.

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