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Improving your home

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Being a tenant

  • Guide to renting privately
  • Bond guarantee scheme - tenants
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Being a landlord or renting out a room

  • Apply to licence a house in multiple occupation (HMO)
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  • Renting out your property

Buying

  • First Homes scheme
  • Help to buy

Swap your home

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Empty properties

  • Empty residential properties

Homelessness

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Help if you are homeless or threatened with homelessness

  • Homelessness duties and eligibility criteria
  • Help if you are sleeping rough
  • Help if you are a homeless veteran

Housing advice

  • Guide to renting privately
  • End of private tenancy, eviction or landlord problem
  • Housing advice for people leaving prison
  • Housing advice for care leavers aged 25 and under
  • Housing advice and support for victims of domestic abuse
  • Housing advice for people leaving hospital
  • Refugee housing support

Help with housing costs

  • Housing Benefit and/or Council Tax Reduction
  • Bond guarantee scheme - tenants
  • Shelter: Emergency grants, loans and money help

Hostels

  • Hostels for the homeless

Other support

  • Help with food, heating and clothing

Living independently at home

Mobility aids, equipment and adaptions

  • Equipment, alterations and technology to support you at home
  • Home adaptations
  • Help with mobility
  • Carephones telecare home safety service
  • Blindness and vision loss support
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  • Key safes

Independence at home

  • Home care services
  • Employing a personal assistant
  • Help with eating well
  • Support after illness or hospital discharge (reablement)
  • Handyperson service - Age UK
  • IT training - Age UK
  • Assisted bin collections
  • Council tax discounts, exemptions and benefits
  • Keeping your house warm and reducing energy bills

Animals

Dogs

  • Stray and lost dogs
  • Barking dogs
  • Dog fouling
  • Dog control Public Space Protection Orders (PSPO)
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  • Get your dog microchipped
  • Five steps to being a responsible dog owner

Pest control

  • Pest control at domestic properties
  • Pest control at commercial properties
  • Pest control out of hours and other services
  • Report a wasp nest
  • Contact Pest Control

Immigration and refugees

  • Applying for an immigration property inspection
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  • EU Settlement Scheme

Housing strategies and policies

Kirklees Housing Strategy

  • Kirklees Housing Strategy 2018-2023

Allocations and tenancy

  • Housing allocations policy
  • Kirklees Strategic Tenancy Policy

Homelessness

  • Discharging statutory homelessness duties into the private rented sector policy
  • Kirklees preventing homelessness and rough sleeping strategy 2018 - 2023

Local Lettings

  • Kirklees Local Lettings Framework

Private sector

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Market assessment

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