🏳️🌈 Is your current accommodation not safe?
If you are in Home Office accommodation and experiencing aggression because you are LGBT — this is a known problem. There are organisations that can help.
Council homelessness duty does not require LGBT evidence.
What to do right now:
Council does not require LGBT evidence
If you have received refugee status and are being asked to leave Home Office accommodation, you have the right to apply to the Council as homeless.
The Council assesses your vulnerability. A threat due to your LGBT status is a vulnerability factor. You are not required to provide intimate evidence.
Source: Justlife, «Not Straight, Not Home» (2023) — research on LGBT people in temporary accommodation.
- 28 days — minimum notice to leave Home Office accommodation after receiving status
- 56 days — the maximum Home Office typically gives
- As soon as you get your decision — apply to the Council as homeless, do not wait until eviction
Contact directly by email — places are limited.
Praxis and Action Foundation
Praxis (London) and Action Foundation (Newcastle) support migrants and asylum seekers with housing.
They do not have a specific LGBT programme but can help with general housing questions for migrants and asylum seekers.
- Praxis — London and south-east England
- Action Foundation — North East England
What to do if you are in danger right now
- 999 — if there is immediate danger
- Migrant Help 0808 8010 503 — 24/7 line for asylum seekers; they accept complaints about accommodation conditions
- Galop 0800 999 5428 — LGBT-specific support and advocacy
- Request a transfer to a different accommodation through your caseworker — you can state LGBT grounds