Emergency housing

Various different people or organisations can assist in finding you emergency accommodation during and immediately after a flood. It may be covered by your home insurance and you should check your policy carefully for details. Often your insurance company will pay for emergency accommodation up to a certain percentage of the value of your insurance. If you rent accommodation and your home insurance does not cover emergency accommodation, then you will have to rely on your local authority to re-house you (if you have been flooded you will have priority for re-housing). In such a case, you should contact your local council’s housing department as soon as possible.

If it is not possible for you to re-occupy the property immediately, for example while the property is being repaired, your insurance company or local authority may arrange temporary accommodation for you.

20 November 2002

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