What is a HMO?
A House in Multiple Occupation (HMO).
These can provide an important supply of housing, often to vulnerable or disadvantaged households. HMO's are buildings or part of a building, such as a flat, where people share a kitchen, bathroom or cooking facility.
This can be a building which is
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Occupied by more than one household and where more than one household shares - or lacks - an amenity such as a bathroom, toilet or cooking facility.
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Occupied by more than one household and which is a converted building - but not entirely self-contained flats (Whether or not some amenities are shared or lacking).
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Converted self-contained flats that do not meet, as a minimum standard, the requirements of the 1991 Building Regulation, and at least one third of the flats are occupied under short tenancies.
What is a household?
Household means that if individuals are not of the same family, either by blood, marriage or some other recognised means (ie fostering or adoption) they will be classed as separate households. For example, four individuals (e.g. student nurses) living together in a house who are not related would be deemed to constitute four households.