Are You Homeless or Facing Housing Difficulties? Help is at hand.

CHNI supports the Human Rights Consortium's campaign for a strong and inclusive Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland

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Northern Ireland Housing Executive. The Housing Executive (NIHE) has 37 District Offices across Northern Ireland.

To find your local District Office, click here (NIHE site).  For Out of Hours Services, please refer to the telephone numbers on the left.

For more information on how the Housing Executive assess and decide what help they can give you click here for an advice leaflet

There are a number of self-referral Accommodation and Support services available that you can contact directly. The immediate help these accommodation providers will be able to provide will vary depending on vacancies.  

For Accommodation poster listing self-referral services, click here

If you require housing advice related to renting accommodation, debt, or threat of homelessness, contact Housing Rights Service.  You can telephone the Housing Rights Service, during office hours, on  02890 245 640.  

To visit Housing Advice NI, click here. This site provides free, reliable and practical information on housing and homelessness issues with pages specifically produced for young people.

If you are a young person faced with housing difficulties or homelessness, please visit this link.

For further information about your rights, visit Housing Advice NI pages, click here.

Homeless Northern Ireland is web site for professionals and members of the public alike. The site gives up to date information about 400 hostels, advice and support services. Help you need, when you need it.  You can access Homeless NI from this site - just click on the Homeless NI tab at the top of the page or click here

If you are a migrant worker and need advice, you can also contact:

STEP (Migrant Workers’ Support Project) on 02838 399 595; and

NI Council for Ethnic Minorities, on 02890 319 666.

Migrant Worker advice on Housing Advice NI (Housing Rights Service website)

Law Centre NI Derry tel: 7126 2433; Belfast tel: 9024 4401

Migrant Worker Support Network; tel: 87729002

If you are a refugee or asylum seeker...

• if you are at risk of detainment or deportation, Northern Ireland Community of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (NICRAS) operate an emergency out of hours number: 0794 8727014
• NICRAS holds a weekly lunch-time Drop In: Thursday 12.00-02.00. contact: 028 9024 6699/0794 872 7014
• An Information pack for asylum-seekers in Northern Ireland who may be detained from Refugee Action Group

On the left hand side of this page, you will find telephone numbers and web links that may be of use to you.  Also, please browse our “Useful Links” section

Two useful online directories:

Homeless NI

Advice Services Directory (Housing Rights Service website)

CHNI new contact details

Our new address:
CHNI, Central Office
4th Floor, Andras House
60 Great Victoria Street
Belfast, BT2 7BB

Telephone, fax and web remain the same:

Tel: 02890246440
Fax: 02890241266
email: info@chni.org.uk
web: www.chni.org.uk

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