Use its current advice and contact routes, including urgent housing help. Check availability on the service’s own page.
Independent help / Choose the right route
You do not have to
work it out alone.
If a deadline is close, your housing is uncertain or you have an eviction notice, ask for help promptly. Do not wait for a campaign or a future reform.
General information, not legal advice. An adviser should check your housing, notice and circumstances.
01 / Help comes without a campaign condition
Help comes without a campaign condition
02 / Find the right service
Find the right service
Information and local advice on housing, benefits, debt and related problems. Local services have their own arrangements.
Find a local Law Centre and check its areas of law, geographical coverage and eligibility.
Cambridge House’s service supports private renters facing exploitation. Check partner-borough coverage and referral arrangements.
A member-led union with local organising and member support. Ask about its membership and support arrangements.
A community union organising around housing and other issues. Check local branch and member-support arrangements.
03 / Existing rent challenge tools
Existing rent challenge tools
Resist Rent Rises is a network of tenants’ unions and community groups offering a rent checker and resources. Rent Rise Check publishes searchable decisions and explains its analysis.
These are separate services. Read their privacy information before entering personal details. This site does not send them your answers.
04 / Prepare for an advice appointment
Prepare for an advice appointment
- Keep the notice, envelope or email, tenancy agreement and relevant dates.
- Say immediately if the printed rent start date or an eviction deadline is close.
- Explain what you want checked: the route, the notice, the amount, or a payment problem.
- Ask what to do now and what can wait. Record the adviser’s next steps.
If you have nowhere safe to stay or are threatened with homelessness, contact your council’s homelessness service promptly as well as a housing adviser. If you face immediate danger, use emergency services.
09 / Sources for this page
Sources for this page
- Get help — Shelter England
- Housing advice — Citizens Advice
- Member-led organising and support — London Renters Union
- Community union — ACORN
- Safer Renting — Cambridge House
- Find your local Law Centre — Law Centres Network
- Check and challenge your rent — Resist Rent Rises
- Apply for an open market rent determination — HM Courts & Tribunals Service
Information checked 4 November 2026. Read the method, full registry and limits →