Yorkshire Housing provides an allocation and letting service to customers looking to find a home. Applicants are assessed on housing need to support balanced and sustainable communities. We provide you with a simple, transparent, fair and easy to use process.

All applicants will be assessed and allocated in accordance with Yorkshire Housing’s band system.

We will undertake pre-tenancy checks and a home visit, requesting references and identifying any support requirements with the aim of creating sustainable tenancies.

Yorkshire Housing will exclude applicants for a defined period because of past or current behaviour. Decisions will be guided by our vetting process.

The banding system is to give a fairer opportunity for customers to be housed by Yorkshire Housing, helping to create sustainable communities through providing a transparent, fair and easy to use process.

Customers will be placed into three bands with each band randomly allocated to each void property.

The bands are as follows:

Band 1 – Health and Welfare
High health and/or care needs
Statutory Homeless
Non Statutory Homeless
Victim of ASB or Hate Crime

Band 2 – Community and Economic
Economic Qualification
Local Connection
Community Qualification
Under Occupation (releasing 1 or more bedrooms)

Band 3 – General
All other applicants that do not follow in to one of the previous bands

To apply for properties on Rightmove you must either complete the online enquiry form or contact the number on the Rightmove advert.

Once the advert has closed, we will contact those who have registered an interest and carry out an individual assessment based on housing need. Home visits, interviews and reference checks will be carried out prior to any tenancy offers being made.

In some areas we take part in a local choice based lettings (CBL) scheme along with the local authority and other landlords. Some of our available homes are then let through these schemes.

Choice based lettings enables you to complete one application and be considered by a number of landlords with homes in areas you choose. Available homes are advertised and you can bid for any suitable for you. All bids are judged on their priority or banding and the highest placed applicant is usually offered the home first. The list of choice based lettings providers we work with are:

Barnsley HomeSeeker
Calderdale KeyChoice
Leeds Homes Register
North Yorkshire Homechoice
Kirklees Choose ‘n’ Move
Wakefield Homesearch
Rotherham Key Choices

In these areas, the Local Authority maintains a waiting list and we receive nominations from this list. You will be able to get more information about the nominations process and getting on to the waiting list in these areas from the Local Authority.