Rooms in shared homes across London, listed by LGBTQ+ people. Free whether you're looking for a room or looking for someone to fill one.
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If you're listing a room: your room pinned to the top of the search, every applicant's references, and your ID verified. Worth about £40.
If you're looking for one: the first move on brand-new rooms, and your ID verified. Worth £30.
How it works
Got a spare room? It's free to list, and you choose who moves in.
Among Our People is new, and London is where we're starting. The first rooms listed here get seen by everyone who arrives looking, rather than buried under everything else.
Listing a room is free. You say who you're looking for. You read who applies, and you decide who moves in.
Every view, request and application lands in one place. Our matching algorithm ranks the people who've applied by how well they actually fit what you asked for, so the strongest are at the top rather than whoever messaged first. You can see their references and whether their ID has been checked before you reply to anyone. Open a few slots in the calendar and shortlisted people book their own viewing, so there's no back and forth about Tuesday evening.
Looking for a roommate rather than a room? It's the same listing either way. Say who you'd live well with, and read who applies.
List your room - it's freeLondon is a lot of small places stacked together. Here's what a few of them are actually like.
Small, odd, interesting venues rather than big clubs, Dalston Superstore among them. Stoke Newington, just north, is quieter and full of LGBTQ+ families. No tube out here. The Overground runs through Dalston and meets the tube at Highbury & Islington.
Rye Lane has turned into somewhere people travel to. The queer club scene here is one of the least advertised in London. Trains from Peckham Rye run into London Bridge and Victoria.
Where London does its late nights. The Royal Vauxhall Tavern has been going since the eighties. Clapham next door feels more like a neighbourhood than a night out. Vauxhall has the Victoria line and its own mainline station, so the West End is a short hop.
Old Compton Street is still the most recognisable queer street in the country. Almost nobody can afford to live on it. You wouldn't need transport, which is rather the point.
Where the money goes furthest. Walthamstow Central sits at the top of the Victoria line, which is why it's better connected than the rents suggest. Lewisham has the DLR and trains into London Bridge, and is one of the most mixed boroughs in the city.
Wondering what rooms cost across the city? → Our London renting guide
Nearly one in five LGBTQ+ private renters say they've faced discrimination from a landlord or letting agent because of their sexual orientation. (Generation Rent and akt, 2022)
The usual way round that is to work out how much of yourself to mention, and when. You don't have to run that calculation here. Everyone who lists has already answered it.
What that buys you is a room where the first night isn't an interview. ✦
If you're renting from a landlord who doesn't live in the property, your deposit has to go into a government-backed protection scheme, and it's capped at five weeks' rent where the annual rent is under £50,000. It stays protected for the whole time you live there.
If your landlord lives there and you're a lodger, your deposit doesn't have to go into a protection scheme. The five-week cap still applies, though. That doesn't make it a bad deal, and a lot of London flatshares work this way, but you should know which one you're in before you hand any money over.
Since May 2026 a landlord or agent can't take any rent before you've both signed the agreement. Between signing and moving in, they can usually ask for no more than one month's rent. If someone wants several months up front to hold a room for you, that's a reason to stop.
Expect to be asked for proof of income or a letter from your employer, a reference from a previous landlord, a credit check, and sometimes a guarantor if you're a student or new to the country. A live-in landlord letting a room often skips all of that and goes on a conversation instead, which is faster and rests more on trust in both directions.
See the room in person, or on a live video call where someone walks you through it. Ask who else lives there, and meet them if you can. Never send a deposit to someone you haven't spoken to. If a room is cheap for the area and the person is in a hurry, slow down.
Verified identity takes a lot of this worry out for both sides, and while our launch offer runs we'll cover the cost of yours. Complete your profile and it's on us.
Not every room here is let for money. Some people offer a room at reduced rent, or rent free, in exchange for a bit of help around the house. That's homeshare, and it's here too.
Listing is free. You say who you're looking for. You read who applies, and you decide who moves in.
London is where we're concentrating first, so a room listed here doesn't have to fight for attention. ✦
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