Housing
Advice and information for council tenants, homeowners and private renters.
Council tenants
Find out key information for council tenants including rent enquiries, tenancy matters and communal area repairs.
Council leaseholders
Information for leaseholders about service charges, insurance, and selling your leasehold property.
Have your say on your services
We want to make sure tenants and leaseholders have the opportunity to influence the way services are designed and delivered.
Performance
Find out how we're performing across housing services, repairs, safety, and complaints.
Building safety
We want to make sure everyone in our council homes lives in safe, well-maintained buildings.
Complaints
Find out how to make a complaint about Housing Services if you are a Lewisham Council tenant or leaseholder.
Housing assistance
Getting housing support
Get housing advice, find somewhere to live or get help with homelessness.
Moves and transfers for social housing tenants
Move, exchange or transfer from your social housing home.
Information for social housing tenants
Advice if you're already a social housing tenant
A new resident portal is coming soon
We have been working behind the scenes to build an improved online Resident Portal. The new system will be reliable and easy to use, so you can do more online and spend less time on the phone to us.
Private tenants and landlords
Find key information on private lettings in Lewisham.
Affordable ways to buy a home
Get advice about buying your own home.
Housing strategy and policies
Information about our housing strategy and policies.
Housing benefit
Housing benefit is a scheme to help people pay their rent to us, a housing association or a private landlord.
Grants and loans to improve your home
Home owners, private tenants and private sector landlords may be eligible for a grant or interest-free loan for home maintenance and other costs.
Partners and duty to refer
If you are a public organisation you can tell us about someone who could be homeless.
No recourse to public funds
Information for social workers and professionals about no recourse to public funds, our procedures, duties and responsibilities.
Empty and derelict properties
Report an empty property or find out how to bring your empty property back into use.