The Welsh Government scheme – Houses into Homes

In Wales, the Welsh Government scheme, Houses into Homes can provide a loan to enable a property to be made fit to sell or to let. Applications are made through the local authority. More information about the scheme is available on the Welsh Government website at: new.wales.gov.uk

Which properties can your local authority help improve

Your local authority can help improve a building, part of a building, a caravan, or a boat, as long as the property is your home, or it is available for you to live in as your home.

Application forms

A local authority can have its own application forms for help, and its own rules about what you have to do to apply for help. Ask your local authority for more information about this.

If you’re disabled, a local authority must provide application forms in a form you can use, for example, in large print.

Your rights when you apply for help with home improvements

Your local authority will have its own rules about the conditions you must meet in order to get help. For example, its rules might say you cannot get a grant if your savings are over a certain limit. Although your local authority can have its own rules, there are certain things that it must or must not do when it provides help with home improvements. Your local authority must have rules about help with home improvements, but it cannot have rules which are completely rigid or unreasonable. For example, it cannot say it will never give any grants, and it must take your individual circumstances into account if you apply for help. Also, the rules must not discriminate against you because of your age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

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