Housing options
We can help you understand your housing options and make a plan that works for you. Whether you want to stay in your home or move somewhere else, we will support you.
Ask for housing options advice from your local housing team.
Our domestic abuse housing policy explains more about the help we offer and how we can help keep you safe.
If you need to leave your home
If you feel unsafe in your home, we can offer you somewhere else to stay. This may be temporary accommodation. It gives you time to make longer-term plans.
We will help you find a safe and secure place to live.
We can also give you help and advice if you want to apply for housing.
If you want to stay in your home
We can help you feel safer at home. This might include:
- changing locks
- providing security measures
There are legal options to help keep someone away from your home. You can speak to a solicitor or support organisations about this.
Contact your local housing team or support organisations for more advice.
If your partner is a social renting tenant
If your partner is a social renting tenant and you want to remain living there (or return to your home), the landlord can ask the Court to end their tenancy if they have been abusive.
This allows people who have experienced domestic abuse to remain in their home. It also helps people to return if they have had to leave temporarily to escape abuse and wish to move back (rather than become homeless). It is their choice. We will transfer the tenancy to them. It avoids them having to leave the property because of the abuse.
The law and tenancy agreement gives us the legal power to do this. The Scottish Government have published more information about this.
Ask for advice from your local housing team.
If you return to us for help
You have the right to feel safe. We will help you find somewhere safe to stay, no matter how many times you come to us.
Other housing options
You may not want to move into temporary housing, or there may not be a suitable place nearby.
We can help you look at other options, such as:
- other types of low cost housing
- support with your tenancy and the issues you are experiencing
- moving elsewhere