Applicants

You can apply for a Hoas apartment, if you are a full time student, a degree student, entitled to student financial aid and your school is in the capital area or surrounding municipalities. Hoas tenant selection criteria are not satisfied by all schools and types of study.

Hoas has apartments available for the spring term and for the summer months. Anyone who has a temporary job or studies in the capital area or surrounding municipalities can apply these apartments.

An underaged person can apply for a Hoas apartment as long as the person's guardian consents to it. When you fill in your application, please enter your guardian's details carefully in the space reserved for them.

The credit information of any applicant and the guardian of an underaged applicant is always checked automatically from the systems of Suomen Asiakastieto, when an application is submitted. A record of a payment default entries does not prevent you from applying. Stricter conditions will be applied to any potential apartment offer.

Those living in Hoas housing can apply for a new apartment for example when their situation changes. An internal transfer means moving from a Hoas apartment to another Hoas apartment without a compelling reason. A transfer of right to occupancy means moving from a Hoas apartment to another due to a changed situation.

The rent in Hoas's unfurnished apartments includes always water and electricity in all shared apartments and some other apartment types. Additional free services in almost all properties are HOASnet, laundry room, sauna slots, common tenant facilities and storage spaces.

Hoas tenant selection is regulated by ARA, the Housing Finance and Development Centre of Finland. Hoas also has its own rules and campus principle which affect the choice of tenants. Priority will be given to applicants who are homeless, of modest means and/or have a low income, otherwise in urgent need of an apartment and studying to complete a basic degree.

Hoas has furnished apartments available for the spring term from January to May and unfurnished apartments for the summer months from April to August. Anyone who has for example a summer job or studies in the capital area or surrounding municipalities can apply with the summer apartment application.

Many of Hoas's newest properties are built free of obstructions. Hoas's property in Lauttasaari, Helsinki (Haahkakuja 5) includes a housing unit for handicapped young people, managed by Vamlas.

You can submit an application as soon as you have been admitted to a school, however no more than four months before you intend to move in. When you have filled in the application, Hoas will process it and we will confirm by email that your application is valid.

Here is the housing application.

Your application is valid for three (3) months from the date of submission. The application must be updated at least every three months in order for it to not expire and be removed from our application register.

If your wishes or situation change, you can update your application with the application update form.

Hoas has no queue number system for housing applications. When prioritising applications, we take into account the urgency of the need for an apartment, the applicant's assets and financial situation, as well as the time they have waited.

When the tenant agrees to rent an apartment, a deposit must be paid to and a proof of the payment delivered to Hoas. If social services agree to pay your deposit there are some special terms to be noticed.

You can refuse the apartment offer by cancellation form. If you want your apartment application to stay valid, you must refuse the offer by the given due date.