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• If you're being evicted because you asked for repairs

  Find out what you can do if you're being evicted because you asked for repairs and make sure you know how to get help to challenge the eviction

• Complaining about your landlord's failure to make repairs if you are a social housing tenant

  Complaining about your landlord's failure to make repairs to your social housing landlord, councillor or an Ombudsman and what to include in your complaint.

• Making sure your flat is fire safe

  Find out how to make sure your home is fire safe, and who is responsible for fire safety

• How to report repairs

  Reporting housing repairs to the landlord and what to do if the landlord does not carry out the repairs.

• If there's a leak from a neighbouring flat

  When a landlord is responsible for repairing water damage caused by leaks or floods from a neighbouring property, repeated leaks, and what you can do about damaged belongings.

• If your flat isn't fire safe

  Find out what to do if your landlord asks you to move out after a fire safety check.

• You are taken to court for rent arrears

  Information about the procedure a landlord must follow in order to take a tenant to court for rent arrears, special rules for social housing landlords, notice periods, what happens and a court hearing and the type of orders a judge can make.

• If you get a ‘section 21’ eviction notice

  Check your section 21 notice is valid, find out what to do if it's not valid and make sure you know what to do before you need to leave your home