when everyone has a home

Housing advice

Advice for tenants and homeowners about how to manage, afford and keep your home.

• Points and waiting list
• Homelessness
• Help to pay housing costs
• Eviction
• Repairs and bad housing
• Social tenants' rights
• Private tenants' rights
• Mortgage problems

For professionals

As the leading agency providing advice and information on housing in Northern Ireland, Housing Rights can help other professionals working in housing.

• Training and events
• Policy and research
• Advice and information
• News
• Membership

For landlords

Advice for private landlords on how to manage your tenancy and comply with legal requirements

• Getting started as a landlord
• Preparing to rent
• Rent and rates
• Deposits
• Social security benefits
• Repairs
• Houses in multiple occupation (HMOs)
• Problems with tenants

Housing Mediation Service

Housing Rights' Housing Mediation Service can help solve disputes in private rented tenancies.

It may help you find a solution to your housing problem.

Policy and Research

Our policy work is informed by the experiences of people who contact us for advice. We work on their behalf to secure positive changes to housing legislation, policy and practice in Northern Ireland.

Renters' Voice

Renters' Voice is a project for private renters in Northern Ireland who want to make renting better for everyone.  Our aims are to build a strong voice for private tenants in NI and a culture of tenant participation in development of the Private Rented Sector.