Affordable rented homes are those provided by housing associations and local authorities. How you go about finding one will depend on where you live in the region. This applies to sheltered housing and general needs housing.
There are two main schemes used to allocate homes:
Common Housing Registers and
Choice Based Lettings.
Here you can see who you need to contact depending on where you live.
Babergh
Scheme: Gateway to Homechoice - Choice Based Lettings
Contact: 01473 825765
https://www.gatewaytohomechoice.org.ukBraintree
Scheme: Gateway to Homechoice - Choice Based Lettings
Contact: 01376 552525
https://www.gatewaytohomechoice.org.ukBreckland
Scheme: Breckland Key Select
Contact: 01842 756416
Cambridge City
Scheme: Home-Link - Choice Based Lettings
Contact: 01223 457917
www.home-link.org.ukForest Heath
Scheme: Home-Link - Choice Based Lettings
Contact: 01638 719345
www.home-link.org.ukIpswich
Scheme: Gateway to Homechoice - Choice Based Lettings
Contact: 01473 433207
https://www.gatewaytohomechoice.org.ukMid Suffolk
Scheme: Gateway to Homechoice - Choice Based Lettings
Contact: 01449 720711
https://www.gatewaytohomechoice.org.ukSouth Cambridgeshire
Scheme: Home-Link - Choice Based Lettings
Contact: 08450 450051
www.home-link.org.ukSt Edmundsbury
Scheme: Home-Link - Choice Based Lettings
Contact: 01284 757178
www.home-link.org.ukPlease note, many of the villages where we have homes have a planning agreement in place which restricts who can live in those homes. To be eligible you would need to have a local connection to the village (for example have family there or work there).