Housing advice and guidance

Sustainable Regeneration offers a free advice service on behalf of the city council on matters such as renting from private landlords and housing associations, problems with your landlord, threat of eviction, mortgage arrears, repossession and homelessness.

To keep up with the changing housing markets, we are now adapting the way we deliver the service with the aim of providing a more holistic approach to solving a person's housing need, with early intervention focusing on homelessness prevention and the range of housing solutions the service offers.

Over the last couple of years the service has vastly increased the amount of housing options and homelessness prevention initiatives available to people in Salford. These new initiatives have led to increased customer satisfaction and promoted sustainable communities in Salford. We will now be offering the following services:

Advice on re-housing in the private sector and Housing Associations
Assisted bidding service for vulnerable clients
Debt and Welfare advice Homelessness assessments
Re-housing via Salford Home Search (Choice Based Lettings scheme) and Pinpoint (Greater Manchester Choice Based Lettings scheme)
Young person family mediation
Liaising with landlords and Salford's Accreditation team
Mortgage Rescue Schemes
Home Repossession Prevention
Salford's Sanctuary Scheme
Individual's housing options planning Rental Bond Scheme (deposit). If you wish to apply for a Rental Bond please download and complete the application form and equality monitoring form below. These should be returned to the address at the bottom of the page

For more information, please read our frequently asked questions.

Our service standards are now available to view online.

Downloadable documents

If you are unable to view documents of these types, our downloads page provides links to viewing software.

Who to contact

Name: Housing Advice and Support Services team
Address: Crompton House
100 Chorley Road
Swinton
M27 6ES
Telephone: 0161 793 2020 (Emergencies outside office hours - 0161 794 8888)
Email: housingadvice@salford.gov.uk

This page was last updated on 6 July 2010

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