Housing Information The list below contains phone numbers for housing associations and other places that can help with housing issues. Use the menu below to find the housing association that can advise you. Housing and Homelessness Accommodation Agencies/Estate Agencies with Rented Accommodation Emergency Accommodation Housing Associations

Housing and Homelessness

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• CENTRE 33
  33 Clarendon St, Cambridge. 316488.
  Offers information and assistance to all homeless under 25's during opening times.
  Also housing advice and advocacy for young people aged 17 and under.
  Ring 316488 to arrange an appointment
• WINTERCOMFORT
  Overstream House, Victoria Avenue, Cambridge. 518140.
  Resource Centre (The Bus): Open: 12am-5pm Mon-Thu. Drop-in centre for homeless people providing cost price food; lockers for storage of possessions; washing facilities; A GP surgery on Fridays from 2-4pm. Fortnightly vet surgery. Drug and alcohol service Wednesdays 3-4pm.
  Rent Deposit and Support Scheme:
  4a Gonville Place, Cambridge. 518149 (RDSS)
  Helps homeless people with deposits for private rented accommodation. Single people and couples without children only.
  518145 (Bridge Houses) ; 518146 (Manager & Resettlement)
  
• HOUSING AID CENTRE
  44 St Andrews St, Cambridge. 457934 / 457935 / 457936 / 457924 / 457928 - housing advice
  457978 - tenancy rights
  Tenancy rights and Housing advice. Free and confidential. Part of the City Council Housing Department.
  Open: Mon - Wed 9 - 5pm, Thurs 2-5pm, Fri 9 - 4.30pm.
• MANDELA HOUSE
  4 Regent St, Cambridge. 457000 (ask for Housing Benefits).
  Housing benefits office. Open 9 - 5pm Mon - Thur, 9 - 4.30pm Fri.
• CAMBRIDGE INDEPENDENT ADVICE CENTRE
  41 Mill Road, Cambridge. 712222.
  Advice on problems with benefits, DSS or debt. Mon- Thur 10 - 1pm.
  Appointments and home visits can be arranged
• CITIZEN'S ADVICE BUREAU
  72/74 Newmarket Rd, Cambridge. 0870 1264010
  Free and confidential advice and information.
  Open: Mon 9.30 - 6pm, Tues-Fri 9.30 - 4.30pm, Sat 10 - 12 noon.
  Also has advice surgeries, housing advice and assistance, phone for information. 361418.
  Addenbrookes - 10am-3pm Mon & Weds, 10am-12.30pm Thurs & Fri
• DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SECURITY
  Benefit Agency, 73-79 Chesterton Rd, Cambridge. 545200.
  Open: Mon-Thur 8.30 - 4pm, Fri 9.30 - 3.30pm.
• JOB CENTRE
  Henry Giles House, 73-79 Chesterton Rd, Cambridge. 545000.
  Open: Mon, Wed, Thur 8.30am-4pm, Tues 10am-4pm, Fri 8.30am-3.30pm.
  Specialist under 18's Adviser & Disability Employment Adviser
• SALVATION ARMY
  Community Centre, low cost meals, 104 Mill Rd, Cambridge. 367633.
  Charity shop, 48 Mill Road, Cambridge 316161.
  Offers limited clothes and sleeping bags to homeless people, and food parcels for families in need via covering letter from a housing association or the community centre. Mon-Fri 9am - 2.30pm.
• UNIVERSITY ACCOMMODATION SYNDICATE The Accommodation Officer, 18 Silver St, Cambridge. 353518.
  Undergraduate & post graduate Students.
  Mon-Fri 9am-12.45pm and 2pm-4.45pm.
• CAMBRIDGE S.O.F.A
  Units 6 & 7, 25 Gwydir St, Cambridge. 576535.
  Redistributes unwanted furniture, household and electrical goods. Paint is available free of charge. Agency or self-referral required. Take evidence of Benefits / low-income / student.
  Open: Mon-Fri 10am-3pm.
• LEAVING CARE TEAM
  Social Services, Butts Grove, Huntingdon 01480 376404.
  Offer support and information to under 21s who are in or have been in care. Open during normal office hours.
• CONNECTIONS (organised by Wintercomfort)
  15 Croft Lane, Little Downham, nr Ely CB6 2TJ 01353 699369
  Connections course to help homeless people back into work or training. Courses are free, part-time and run for about three months. 10 week course at YMCA. Unemployed for 6 months.
• YOUNG PEOPLE'S PROJECT
  1 Wheatsheaf Close, Ely, Cambs. CB6 3YH. 01353 663999.
  Purpose built unit for twelve 16 - 20 yr. olds. Run by the Cambridge Housing Society.

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