Costs of available houses

For information about homes that you can rent, including the amount of rent you pay, please visit www.ghchoice.co.uk

Renting a property from The Gateshead Housing Company / Gateshead Council

Have your say over where you want to live  

What would you prefer – being told the area you will live in or be given a choice? The answer’s obvious isn’t it? After all, if you were ‘told’ this might mean moving away from your friends, family, school, college…

But, The Gateshead Housing Company has the answer – HomeChoice!

What is HomeChoice?

Technically, HomeChoice is a ‘Choice Based Lettings’ scheme. All that means is people now have more choice over the types of home and area of Gateshead they want to live in.

Before, applicants would join a ‘housing list’ and wait to be contacted about a suitable property, but now, they have more say…

How Does It Work?

Every week, available homes will be advertised:

Bid For The Property Of Your Dreams?

It’s a bit like an auction really. Members can ‘bid’ for homes, not with money, but with the time they have built up on the scheme. So, if someone had been a HomeChoice member for five years, they would have more ‘time’ to bid with than someone who had only been a member for two months.

Bids can be made:

How Do You Join?

You have to be 18 or over to join HomeChoice.  If you would like to join, or know someone else that would, click on the link below.

HomeChoice or call into a local housing office

What if i am leaving care?

If you're leaving care, there's a lot to think about and the housing company has a Young Persons' Support Worker who can help.