Housing

Adaptations, accessible housing, landlords' duties and homelessness support.

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Key points

Landlords and letting agents must make reasonable adjustments, for example to policies and communication, and must consider requests about auxiliary aids.
Disabled Facilities Grants can help pay for adaptations such as ramps, stairlifts and level-access bathrooms.
Councils must consider disability when assessing housing need and when someone is homeless or at risk of homelessness.
Social landlords may have their own adaptation schemes; ask before applying for a grant.
You may need your landlord's permission for physical alterations to a rented home.
A worked example: a tenant who cannot climb stairs safely could ask their council for a Disabled Facilities Grant to fund a stairlift or ground-floor shower room, alongside asking their landlord for consent to install it.
Councils must also consider disability when deciding who qualifies for social housing and how urgently, through their allocations policy.