Follow the links below for information about using the Home4U scheme.

How Home4U Works
The Points Scheme
Where to Get Home4U
Adverts
Feedback
Bidding
What properties can I bid for
General Information
Languages and Format Information
Empty Properties Service Standards

If you have any questions about how Home4U applies to you or about bidding for properties please contact the Customer Service centre in person or on 01438 242666

Helping you find a new home in Stevenage Home4U is Stevenage’s new Choice Based Lettings Scheme.

For the past three years, studio and one-bedroom flats have been allocated through a very successful Choice Based Lettings scheme.

This scheme, now named Home4U, is being extended so that all council homes will be let in this way. Home4U gives you more choice about where you want to live. In the past you may have waited on the Housing Needs Register until the council selected a property for you. Now you can decide which properties you would like to be considered for.

Asking to be considered for one of the homes advertised is called ‘bidding’.

Home4U is available to everyone on the Housing Needs Register, including:

- Transfer Applicants - existing tenants who would like to transfer to a new home.

- Homeseekers - new applicants who are waiting on the Housing Needs Register.

All council properties will now be allocated in this way so if you want to be re-housed by Stevenage Homes you will have to take part.

The feedback section of the Home4U magazine will help you to understand the housing situation in Stevenage. You will be able to see how many properties of each type are available, how many people have applied for them and the band and points level of successful applicants.

If you decide that you may not be successful you can look at other ways to solve your housing difficulties.