Housing Strategy and Homelessness Strategy

Strategic Responsibility

The Council has strategic housing responsibility for East Staffordshire which is described in the following documents.

• The Housing Strategy 2021-2025
• The Homelessness Strategy 2018-2023, which is itself based on other documents, eg
  • The Homelessness Review Brief
  • The Homelessness Review
  • Breaking the Cycle - Staffordshire's Strategy for tackling Domestic Violence

The main areas of action in the Housing Strategy The Housing Strategy 2015-2020 are:-

• Preventing Homelessness
• Affordable Housing
• Improving the availability of housing
• Keeping down the number of empty homes
• Tackling sub-standard housing

Affordable Housing

What is Affordable Housing?

Affordable housing is housing that is rented or sold at below market-rates. It comes in various forms:

• Social rented accommodation - where the landlord is a Housing Association.
• Shared-ownership - where you buy a percentage of a property and pay rent on the remainder.
• Shared-equity - where you buy a percentage of a property with a mortgage and the rest of the property with a discounted loan.

If you are looking for affordable housing please see finding somewhere to live.

For more details call 01283 508149 or email housingstrategy@eaststaffsbc.gov.uk