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Homes close to work, for everyone who works. Tell us where you work and what you can pay, and we will email you when a home that fits is listed. Our register maps the staff and key worker housing schemes across the UK.
One record of who needs a home, where, and at what cost, with a page for each of the people who use it. Registration is open. We are signing up the first owners now.
Register what you need, see the staff housing the register records near your work, and hear first when a home that fits is listed. Residents never pay Keyworker.com a fee.
Post your hiring pipeline so that homes can be ready before your staff start, invite staff to register privately, and choose a nomination, payroll rent or a corporate let.
List professionally managed blocks and portfolios, see requirements from employers nearby, and fill homes. One annual subscription per scheme, priced in bands of fifty beds.
Check a site before you build or buy, see the agreements the sector rests on, and follow each scheme’s record from site to sale.
The register of staff housing schemes, the agreements behind them, and when the employer support can end.
Key worker housing is housing for people whose work keeps public services and local economies running, close to where they work. Some of it is let below the market cost, and some at the market rent with priority or a reserved place for staff. It includes staff accommodation provided by employers such as NHS trusts, blocks that housing associations let to key workers, and intermediate homes let below market rent or sold through shared ownership.
There is no single national scheme. Employers, housing associations, councils and the Mayor of London each set the rules for their schemes.
National planning policy defines essential local workers as public sector employees who provide frontline services in areas including health, education and community safety. Its examples are:
Source: National Planning Policy Framework, Annex B, August 2026. In London, the Mayor’s list also includes some private sector occupations.
Staff and key worker housing schemes from public sources, with the status of each. Each record shows what public sources say about the scheme, with links to them. Search the register
189
staff housing schemes
From public sources, for NHS trusts, the Ministry of Defence and other employers.
76 of 202
NHS trusts in England
With at least one scheme in the public record.
90
employers named
Across 102 towns and cities.
£20.6m
a year in employer payments
On 14 agreements whose employer support can end between 2026 and 2030.
Employers with four or more schemes in the register. All 90 employers
Much of today’s staff housing rests on nomination agreements, guarantees and leases between one employer and one owner. In the register, 14 in-force agreements with employer payment support can end between 2026 and 2030. They cover 2,051 lettable units and £20.6 million a year of employer payments.
Real announcements, summarised, with a link to each source. All news
Highland Council planners recommended approval of 49 homes near Muir of Ord. Forty would first house workers on SSEN Transmission's grid upgrade, at most three to a home. Twenty would pass to the council as permanent affordable homes after the fourth year.
The plan sets out five workstreams: more key worker homes in the council's regeneration programme, reformed intermediate allocations, exploring planning changes to raise intermediate supply, a relaunched intermediate offer with partners, and lobbying the Mayor to set eligibility against central London costs. The council said there would also be chances to review the key worker definition.
Planning permission has been granted for 264 rented key worker homes and 20 shared ownership homes on the former YMCA site beside the hospital. The permission followed completion of the section 106 agreement. Hospital staff will have priority, and teachers, police officers, and other key workers will also be eligible.
Housing for people whose work keeps public services and local economies running, close to where they work. Some of it is let below the market cost, and some at the market rent with priority or a reserved place for staff. Employers, housing associations and councils each set the rules for their schemes. Read the guide.
It depends on the scheme. National planning policy gives NHS staff, teachers, police, firefighters, military personnel, social care and childcare workers as examples of essential local workers. In London, the Mayor’s list also includes some private sector occupations. Who counts as a key worker.
Start with your employer’s accommodation or HR team. Then search the register for schemes near your workplace: each record shows what public sources say, with links to them. In London, the Mayor expects providers to advertise the intermediate homes he funds on Homes for Londoners. Search the register.
Not yet. We are signing up the first owners now. Register what you need and we will email you when a home near your workplace is listed. The register shows the staff housing schemes that exist today and the organisations that run them, where public sources name them.
Residents never pay us a fee, and employers will register requirements for free. Owners and operators will pay one annual subscription for each scheme they list, priced in bands of fifty beds. The rate card is available on request from the For Owners page.