Cambridge Citizens Advice Bureau

Campaign issue - Choice based lettings

This scheme allows applicants for social housing (and tenants who want to transfer) to apply for vacancies which are advertised.

Priority is often given to those with urgent needs and sometimes to those who have been waiting the longest.row of houses
 
Some tenants have found that they have become liable to pay two lots of rents simultaneously. This means that for some weeks they have had rent demanded both for their old accommodation and for their new accommodation.
 
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