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Prioritising Applications
Hampshire Home Choice uses bands to prioritise customers applying for social housing.
All housing and social tenants who wish to transfer will be assessed and placed in one of 5 bands. The table below sets out the bands and gives examples of those customers who would be eligible to be placed in each band.
| Band | Criteria | Examples |
| Band 1 | Exceptional housing needs | Life threatening health condition Customers needing to be discharged from hospital Customers with an exceptional need to move |
| Band 2 | High priority | Customers whose home is unsuitable because of a statutory order Customers living in overcrowded housing lack in 2 or more bedrooms Vulnerable customers given priority by a Supported Housing Panel Customers with health conditions related to unsuitable housing Customers accepted as homeless by the council and placed in accommodation unsuitable for their long term needs |
| Band 3 | Medium priority | Customers living in overcrowded circumstances and lacking one bedroom Customers accepted as homeless by the Council Customers living in inadequate accommodation Customers with medium health priority Customers needing to move to a particular locality Customers living in private rented accommodation with a high rent |
| Band 4 | Low priority | Customers with a low housing need and a local connection Customers awarded a low health or welfare priority Customers who do have a housing need but have no local connection |
| Band 5 | No priority | Private and social housing tenants who are adequately housed Owner occupiers who have no housing need or with substantial resources Customers with outstanding debts to social landlords Customers who have no local connection and no housing need Customers who are guilty of anti social behaviour |