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Apply for housing
Housing Associations and councils advertise their
properties through the Cumbria Choice
website 
where you can join the register and search for
social housing.
About Cumbria Choice
The six Cumbrian Local Authorities
and eight housing organisations have worked together to
develop a new way of letting their properties which will give more
choice to local people needing social rented housing.
The eight housing organisations are: Castles and Coasts; Eden
Housing; Home Housing; Impact Housing; Accent Housing; Riverside;
Two Castles, South Lakes Arms Length Management
Organisation.
Allerdale Borough Council no longer possesses
any housing stock but retains an interest through its homelessness
duty. Whilst the new scheme will not increase the number of homes
available, Cumbria Choice provides a more transparent way of
letting homes, as well as giving people more choice where they
would prefer to live.
Under choice based lettings customers only
need to complete one application form to access the properties of
all the providers, with the exception of Westfield Housing
association who are not currently a partner in the scheme.
Housing associations advertise their
properties through the scheme and customers can then choose the
homes for which they want to be considered. The scheme works on a
banding system. Priority will still be given to those with a local
connection. However 10% of properties will be made available to
people to move across Local Authority areas.