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Civilian Housing Options
What are the Options?
There are a number of housing schemes that are avaliable to the Service and Ex Service community. These include the Ministry of Defence Nominations scheme, Low Cost Home Ownership and the Key Worker Living Programme.
If you are thinking of buying your own home or you are just about to leave the RAF and want to know what housing options are open to you, take a look at the Joint Service Housing Advice Office (JSHAO) website. This Tri-service organisation can provide you with a wide range of information about the civilian housing opportunities available to you and hold regular briefings which we would recommend.
The aim of the JSHAO is to provide Service personnel and their families with information and advice on the increasingly complex range of civilian housing options. The JSHAO provides a focal point for housing information and advice to all Service personnel and their families in particualr those about to return to civilian life, and to ex-Service personnel who are still in Service Families Accommodation.
Priority Housing
The attached a circular sets out Ministerial guidance on the implementation of changes to housing allocations for members of the Armed Forces and may be of interest to some, as it focuses on the Command Paper commitments to the seriously injured & disabled personnel and the removal of the exemption regarding Local Connection which has to date prevented some leaving the Service from setting in their area of choice.
Ministerial Guidance to Local Government on the Allocation of Housing to Members of the Armed Forces
Telephone: 01780 781650
The RAF Families Federation
13-15 St Georges Road
Wittering
Peterborough
PE8 6DL
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