Long-term health problems, such as HIV can affect your housing situation. The stress caused by problems to do with your home can add to the pressures that you're already feeling from other aspects of your situation.
Because of this we've got THT advisers who can help to reduce your worries about housing, so you can devote more energy to the rest of your life.
Below are some of the more common housing problems we help with but if your circumstances aren't the same as any of these, don't worry. If you call THT Direct our generalist advisers will be able to help you. Their experience is wide and it's unlikely that they won't have come across your situation before, and helped to solve it.
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If you're renting the property where you live, you have a right under law to a certain standard of accommodation.
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Damp, condensation or noisy neighbours could make you ill. The law has a system in place to try to help.
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Many people living with HIV need little support, but if it is hard to cope community care services may be available.
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If you are homeless, or think you might soon become homeless, your local authority may have a duty to rehouse you.
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Learn how you may be able to obtain housing through a local authority allocation scheme.