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• Deciding what to do about housing discrimination

  Find out what you can do to solve your problem and get everything ready before you take action

• Check if you can sublet your home

  Check if you're allowed to sublet your home and how it might affect your income and benefits

• If there are pests or vermin in your rented home

  Check if your landlord is responsible for dealing with infestations. Check if the council can help with mice and rat problems

• Lodging and subletting

  Check your rights if you're a lodger or you have a lodger. Check your rights if you sublet from someone, or if you want to sublet your home to someone

• If the structure of the building you live in isn’t safe

  Check what to do if you think your building isn’t safe. You can also check who needs to pay for structural repair works if you’re a leaseholder

• Mortgage problems

  Check what help is available if you’re struggling with your mortgage payments, and what to do if your mortgage lender wants to evict you

• Check if your landlord can increase your rent

  Find out how to deal with a rent increase, find out how to negotiate to get a lower rent and check how you can challenge your rent increase

• Work out which debts to deal with first

  Check which of your debts are ‘priority debts’ that you should deal with first

• Check if your landlord has to protect your deposit

  Check if your landlord needs to put your tenancy deposit into a deposit protection scheme. Check what you can do if they don’t

• 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