Coventry City Council are currently consulting on a set of proposals for changing the Coventry Homefinder Policy. Homefinder is the system used to allocate social housing in the city.

There is an increasing demand for housing in Coventry. There are approximately 14,000 households registered on Coventry Homefinder.

The proposals for change are wide ranging and potentially affect all current and future applicants to the housing register (Coventry Homefinder). The proposals include:

• Who can register on Coventry Homefinder
• Who will receive priority within the ‘banding system’ in the future – including a reduction in the number of bands
• How to apply and what supporting information will be needed.
• Changing the number of times people can refuse an offer of housing
• Ensuring that those registered are actively using Coventry Homefinder
• Changing how adapted properties are advertised-allocated, and
• Why and how bids are ‘skipped’

You can find out more about the proposed changes here.