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Under the new Lettings Policy some homes are advertised to reflect the different levels of housing need.

Urgent housing need applies to members who:

• Are statutorily homeless
• Are threatened with becoming homeless
• Have a severe medical need who are at risk in their current home
• Are severely overcrowded
• Have received a proposed demolition of their home or change of use agreed by Gateshead Council
• Are part of Gateshead Council's suported tenancy scheme - Single Gateway
• Are leaving care - where Gateshead Council has a parental responsibility to minors
• Are leaving a Gateshead Council tied tenancy (imminently)
• Are leaving the armed forces (imminently)
• Are entitled to alternative accommodation - instead of succeeding to a tenancy
• Would release a property in high demand, by moving to one in lower demand
• Are suffering from domestic violence.