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Accommodation search - Quick

Use Quick accommodation search to search for hostels and other accommodation projects in London. There is also an Advanced accommodation search under Quick links that you can use for more detailed searching.

You can select from one or more of the different options on the search page. To make sure you get the largest number of appropriate services only select criteria that are particularly important to you.

  • Text - type in a word or phrase from the name of a project. Any results returned will contain all the words you type in. Use "quotation marks" if you want to look for an exact phrase.
  • Type of accommodation – select one or more accommodation type.
  • Gender – select projects which Will accept men or Will accept women. Only select Men only, Women only or Mixed if these types of hostel are particularly important to you.
  • Age – enter an age to select only those hostels that will accept people of that particular age.
  • Area – select a specific local authority area.

You can use Search all services instead to carry out a simple search of accommodation services combined with advice and other support services.

The attached documents give further information on the search terms used here and also some of the common terms and abbreviations used in entries.

Documents

Homelessness Glossary 2008
Common terms and abbreviations used in the homelessness sector.

Quick Accommodation Search Terms
This document gives explanations of search terms used in the Quick accommodation search.