4 February 2016 Last updated at 12:03 GMT
Michael Davison and his wife spent six weeks living at a Premier Inn after their home in Mytholmroyd was flooded on Boxing Day.
They were told it would be up to nine months before they could return home, but a housing association has found a bungalow in Halifax for the couple.
BBC Look North's Charlotte Leeming reports.
A flood-hit cancer patient who feared he would die in a hotel while waiting to be moved into a new home, has been found a place to live in West Yorkshire.