PLEASE NOTE UNTIL THE END OF JUNE 2013 ALL PROPERTIES ADVERTISED, UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED, PRIORITY WILL GO FIRST TO APPLICANTS DOWN SIZING. 

WHEN SHORTLISTING CUSTOMERS, WE WILL TEXT YOU THE DETAILS OF THE VIEWINGS AND EXPECT A TEXT MESSAGE BACK TO CONFIRM YOU ARE ATTENDING.

PLEASE MAKE SURE WE HAVE YOUR UP TO DATE TELEPHONE NUMBER, OTHERWISE YOU COULD BE MISSING OUT ON VIEWINGS.

Introductory Tenancies

Islington will offer introductory tenancies to all new Islington council tenants for the first year. This could be extended if any of the tenancy conditions are broken and the council can also take actiion to repossess the property. If there are no problems with the tenancy, the introductory tenancy will automatically become a secure tenancy at the end of the year. This does not affect existing Islington council tenants, who will be offered secure tenancies. Housing associations have their own criteria for deciding how many people should live in a property.

If you have been short listed to view a Housing Association or Co-Op property your details will be passed to them and they will contact short listed applicants direct.

g and Council Tax Benefit

From April 2013 the government is cutting the amount of housing benefit you will get if you are a social housing tenant and you have a spare bedroom. This will only apply to people of working age, so if you are old enought to receive state pensions this change will not affect you.  If you have one psare bedroom the cut will be equal to 14% of your rent, if you have two or more spare bedrooms, the cut will be equal to 25% of the rent for your property.

Changes to Housin

PLEASE MAKE SURE WE HAVE YOUR UP TO DATE CONTACT DETAILS.

Bidding opens on a Thursday and closes midnight on  Sunday.

To find out if you receive a drop in your benefits as a result of these changes, please visit www.islington.gov.uk/benefitschanges

To find out what advice and support is available in Islington and more about the changes go to www.islington.gov.uk/advice

This site links housing with employment opportunities so that you can access information on employment and training opportunities across London. The first time you log on to this website you will be asked to complete an optional survey on your employment status  and offered links to training, employment and welfare rights information before going on to the usual Home Connections page to make your bids by clicking on 'my cbl' at the end of the survey.  If you want to go back to work, take up the opportunity of training to learn a new skill, this page will provide you with useful information.

Have you been using the Jobs page or searching for training and advice on the Employment Services page?
If yes, Home Connections would like to hear your story. Selected stories will get a £20.00 gift voucher
Contact us now at kam.basra@homeconnections.org.uk

Important Notice for all bidders

You can bid any time - day or night using our website and telephone bidding line. Your bidding position depends on your points level, not when you put on your bid, so it is not important when you place your bid. Bids can be placed up to midnight on Sundays.

Please note that some of our viewings are at short notice and it is very important that you give us your correct phone number so we can contact you. You may miss out on a viewing if we are unable to contact you in time. You can supply this information to us in writing or by phoning the Allocations Team on  020 7527 4140  020 7527 4140 or 4143.

Please make sure if you are invited to view a property that you bring some personal identification with you to the viewing and some recent proof of address such as a recent utility bill.

The Home Connections automated telephone service has instructions in 9 community languages in addition to English. These are: Sylheti, Cantonese, French, Somali, Turkish, Arabic, Punjabi, Urdu, Vietnamese.

The demand for our homes far exceeds the supply. We regret we are not able to help everybody who applies to us. Those people we can help may wait many years. Therefore we positively encourage you to consider other housing options.