A Southdown client is sitting in their home in front of a fireplace and is smiling at the camera.

To help people secure and keep safe, affordable housing and avert crisis, we provide a range of housing and homelessness prevention support across East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton & Hove.

As well as focusing on your immediate housing need, we also address other issues that are putting the security and stability of your housing at risk, for example, poverty, mental health challenges and domestic abuse. 

All our services are free and available for people aged 18 and over (some can also be accessed by young people aged 16 and over). Please note: eligibility and access to our services varies depending on how support has been commissioned. More information is available in the sections below.

Selected Stories

Housing Support

"If Housing Support hadn’t helped me, I’d have stayed homeless"

A client who receives support from our Housing Support services shares his story and tells us about the difference support has made to his life.

"It feels like mine"

A homeless client who received support from our Rapid Rehousing Pathway Project tells us about his new home after a flat fire over Christmas.

Three people are on the top floor of a multi-storey car park. The sky is blue.

"It’s about trying to keep warm and safe"

Our Digital Solutions Programme Manager, Sam, shares what happened when she and Chief Executive, Neil Blanchard, shadowed the Move On and Outreach Team on an early morning walk around to support rough sleepers around Eastbourne.