Move on from your social home

Help is available if you want to move on from your council or Housing Association home. 

You can choose to look for a new home to rent in Hackney, somewhere else in London or anywhere in the UK.

The following schemes can help you to find and move to a new home:

• Under-occupation Cash Incentive scheme – provides financial support and help with moving costs to Hackney’s social tenants who want to move to property with fewer bedrooms
• A mutual exchange with another social tenant in Hackney; if you’d like to be added to our mutual exchange list then download our Mutual Exchange application form (google doc) and email it to neighbourhood@hackney.gov.uk
• HomeSwapper and House Exchange – allows social tenants to swap their homes with other social tenants anywhere in the UK
• Seaside and Country Homes – allows people aged over 55 to move to properties managed by Housing Associations across the UK
• Fresh start scheme – helps council and Housing Association tenants move to privately rented or Sheltered Housing outside of London
• Homefinder UK – a national housing mobility scheme helping homeless households and people in social housing find permanent social housing outside of their current area
• Housing Moves – helps victims/survivors of domestic abuse and former rough sleepers to move within London