​ Lancaster City Council's Council Housing Service has a dedicated team of staff to help our customers find a suitable home. If you would like to discuss the possibility of renting a council home, please visit our Ideal Choice Homes section. Ideal Choice Homes is the council's own choice-based lettings website. The website also includes properties advertised by other registered providers of social housing (housing associations).

Choice based lettings are a modern, open and transparent system which allows you to exercise much greater choice and make more informed decisions about your housing situation. You are given all the information you need about available properties to make the decisions that are best for you.

If you are looking to swap your council home with another social housing tenant, you will find all the information you need in the Mutual Exchange section.

Those aged 60 or older also have the opportunity to apply to live in one of our Independent Living Schemes. To learn more about our schemes, and how they work, visit the Independent Living section.‎