Social housing

How to apply for a housing association home.

The Council transferred its housing stock to London & Quadrant Bexley Homes and Orbit South Housing Association in 1998.

Finding households for most of the empty housing association homes in Bexley is done by Bexley Allocations Service (BAS).

The service helps approximately 700 households each year with a housing association home in Bexley. It is run in partnership with London & Quadrant Bexley Homes and Orbit South Housing Association who together with Gallions Housing Association own most of the housing association homes in the borough.

The service is also able to put people forward for homes in Bexley that are owned by other housing associations.

There are many more households than there are homes available so there is a system in place for deciding who gets helped first.

For details of how we assess housing need please see the Allocations Scheme. Once someone's housing need has been assessed and the appropriate priority awarded they can bid for suitable homes through Bexley HomeChoice.

Bexley's Choice Based Lettings service is known as Bexley HomeChoice.

Available Housing Association homes in Bexley are advertised through Bexley HomeChoice so that those on the Housing and Transfer registers can place bids on homes that are suitable and that they would like to live in. Details of all properties are also printed and displayed in libraries across the borough as well as at the Civic Offices so it's more like choosing a home through an estate agent. Libraries also have computers available for use if you don't have one at home.

If you are not currently on the Housing or Transfer Register but would like to apply to Bexley for a home, please visit the Bexley HomeChoice website to download an Application Form or to use the Contact Form to request a paper copy of the form and this will be sent to you.

Homes let in the borough

There are 12,500 housing association homes in Bexley, of which nearly 10,000 are owned by London & Quadrant Bexley Homes, Orbit South Housing Association and Gallions Housing Association.

Details of the homes let in a particular area are available from the 'Housing areas in Bexley' PDF (see right hand menu).