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To qualify, you need to have made at least one complaint about one of the following common problems:

Why your Housing Disrepair claim is important

As the tenant of a rented home, you have the right to live in a safe, well-maintained property.

It is, after all, your sanctuary and your landlord has a duty of care to ensure that your health is not affected by negligence in their property’s upkeep.

Your landlords – often the local council or housing association – are responsible for keeping your home up to scratch, ensuring it is safe and sanitary and that any repairs are properly carried out in a timely manner. Landlords also have a duty to ensure the structure and exterior of a property are of a decent standard.

We know that this doesn’t always happen and that delays, or substandard repairs, can have a detrimental effect on a tenant’s health.

Simply put, housing disrepair is the depreciation of your home into a condition of degradation. That could have been put even simpler – it must be habitable.

Your social housing home could be below acceptable standards due to accidental damage or because long-standing repairs or renovations are not being carried out.

And instances of disrepair might extend beyond the physical decline, such as infestation, mould or boiler issues. Any condition that prevents you from living safely and securely in your rented home comes under the broad heading ‘housing disrepair’.

If this has happened to you, you could be eligible to claim compensation.

If your badly-maintained home has contributed to you or a member of your family falling ill, damaged your belongings or caused you inconvenience then there may be a case to answer.

You could be eligible to start proceedings against your landlord if you have been reporting the need for repairs for at least six weeks and the problem is ongoing, either because repairs have not taken place or because the work has not been carried out properly.

The amount of compensation you may be owed in a housing disrepair claim comes under one of two categories – general damages and special damages.

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