Housing Options & Home Maintenance
Age UK Southampton offers free and comprehensive advice on a wide range of subjects.
We can help you identify the problem, explain the choices available and help you decide what you want to do. We may be able to provide individual support if you need further help to resolve the problem.
Our services
- Advice on housing options including accessing sheltered housing, Local Authority housing register allocations and Almshouses
- Advice to help keep you independent at home, such as accessing aids/equipment and maintenance
- Information about your housing arrangements and rights such as tenancy and tenure types.
- Signposting to specialist housing advice for more complex queries such as homelessness, repairs
How we deliver the service
- Telephone advice
- Email advice
- Face to face office appointments
- Information guides and factsheets
Our Resources
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Age UK Information Guides and Factsheets
Age UK produces free information guides and factsheets on a wide range of topics, including housing options and home adaptations.
You can find a complete list of guides and factsheets on the Age UK national website.
Age UK Information Guides and Factsheets
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Housing Maintenance
We're not able to recommend individual traders or companies but you can visit our 'Local traders information page' to help make decisions about choosing a a service.
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Common Questions
Your most common enquiries answered!
We provide free, confidential and impartial advice on a wide range of topics and have created some frequently asked questions to cover the things we get asked about most often - from benefits to care and lots in between.
Our Quality Standards
Our Information & Advice service has achieved the national Advice Quality Standard and been assessed as meeting the benchmarks of the Age UK Information & Advice Quality Programme. This ensures we comply with recognised Advice Sector standards of practice and means our information and advice is accurate and high quality.
