6 Losing your Home
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2. Will the council find me somewhere to live?
3. Does it matter how I become homeless?
4. What if the council offers me somewhere unsuitable?
5. What can I do if I disagree with the council´s decision?
6. Where can I go if I need somewhere to stay urgently?
7. What if my landlord wants to evict me?
8. What can I do if my landlord is harassing me?
9. Further help
Community Legal Advice
Provides free information direct to the public on a range of common legal problems.
Call 0845 345 4 345
If you qualify for legal aid, get free advice from a specialist legal adviser about benefits and tax credits, debt, education, employment or housing. Also find a high quality local legal adviser or solicitor.
Click www.communitylegaladvice.org.uk
Find a high quality local legal adviser or solicitor, link to other online information and see if you qualify for legal aid using our calculator.
Shelter
Shelter has a free Housing Advice Helpline, which gives advice and information on housing matters in the whole of the UK (open from 8am to midnight, every day).
phone: 0808 800 4444
www.shelter.org.uk
Shelter also has a network of local housing aid centres.
Details of centres in England are on the Shelter website at www.shelter.org.uk.
In Wales, contact Shelter Cymru:
phone: 01792 469400 or 01978 317911
www.sheltercymru.org.uk
Child Poverty Action Group
phone: 020 7837 7979
www.cpag.org.uk
Freephone 24-hour National Domestic Violence Helpline run in partnership between Women's Aid and Refuge
phone: 0808 2000 247
www.womensaid.org.uk
www.refuge.org.uk
The Community Legal Service
The Community Legal Service has been set up to help you find the right legal information and advice to solve your problems.
You can get help through a national network of organisations including Citizens Advice Bureaux, Law Centres, many independent advice centres and thousands of high street solicitors. All of these services meet quality standards set by the Legal Services Commission. Look for the Community Legal Service logo, shown below.
Many of the organisations offer some or all of their services for free. If you cannot afford to pay for advice you may be eligible for financial support through the Community Legal Service Fund (Legal Aid). You can order leaflets about funding from the LSC leaflet line on 0845 3000 343. You can also use a Legal Aid eligibility calculator on the website: www.communitylegaladvice.org.uk
The Legal Services Commission (LSC)
The Community Legal Service and the Community Legal Service Fund are managed by the Legal Services Commission. To find out more about us visit our website at www.legalservices.gov.uk or find the details for your local Legal Services Commission office in the phone book.
More about the CLS Quality Mark
Use the Directory
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This leaflet is published by the Legal Services Commission (LSC). It was written in association with Shelter.
Leaflet version: May 2008