Langdale and Fylingdales area wildfire
You can find the latest information about the wildfire in the Langdale and Fylingdales area near Scarborough and Whitby on our Langdale and Fylingdales area wildfire page.
If you are having problems in your current accommodation and are at risk of becoming homeless, we can help.
We can provide you with advice. Where possible, we want to prevent homelessness and we will work with you to try to help you stay in your home. If that is not possible, we will help you find suitable alternative housing.
We provide general housing advice to both tenants and landlords in private and public sector housing.
Some of the things we can help you with are:
You are classed as homeless if you:
We have a legal duty to support you if you are threatened with homelessness and likely to become homeless within 56 days.
Where possible we will take reasonable steps to help you stay in your home. This could be helping you to sort any rent arrears, mediating with your family if they have asked you to leave or working with your landlord to try to resolve any other issues.
If we cannot keep you in your current home, we will help you look for somewhere else to live. You will be given a personal housing plan which lists actions for you to take to help resolve your situation.
If you are homeless, we may be able to arrange emergency accommodation outside of normal office hours - this might be away from your immediate area.
In an emergency and outside of normal office hours call us on 0300 131 2131.