This guide will tell you:
- What type of social housing there is in Bath and North East Somerset
- Where these properties are
- How many properties we were able to advertise on Homesearch in 2009
The aim of this guide is to give you the opportunity to find out what type of social housing is available in Bath and North East Somerset and how many become available in a year.
We hope this will help you decide whether to register an interest in advertised properties.
By social housing we mean housing for rent at or below what is charged by a private landlord.
Most of the social housing in the Bath and North East Somerset area is owned and managed by Registered Providers (formerly know as Housing Associations). You can find a list of all the housing associations on our website.
Whereabouts in Bath and North East Somerset is the social housing?
Our Homesearch application form lists 63 towns and villages in the area. The areas listed in this guide are the same as on the application form.
How many properties are there in each area?
The guide tells you how many of each property type and size there are in each of the 63 towns and villages. Some places have no, or very few, social housing properties.
How many vacancies were there in the past year?
We were able to advertise 585 properties in 2009: 442 general needs houses and flats and 143 flats and bungalows for older people.
The guide tells you how many properties we were able to advertise in each area in 2009.
View the What & where guide
We hope this will help you see how often the type and size of property you want became empty in a certain area. This will give you an idea of how long you might have to wait for a new home, and to compare one area to another.
For the majority of people there is generally a long wait (around 5 years at the moment) for social housing in our area. This will give you an idea of how long you might have to wait for a new home, and to compare one area to another.