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Going to have to leave my flat

wulfhere
wulfhere Posts: 116 Forumite
edited 18 May 2009 at 12:39AM in House buying, renting & selling
Hi, I live in a shared flat, which I am soon going to have to leave as I am unable to find people to move in.

I'm unemployed, male, 31.

As far as I'm aware, my only option is to move into council housing. How quickly can this process happen? I suppose it depends on availability and all that, but then I would have thought that I'd be a low priority.
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  • Fire_Fox
    Fire_Fox Posts: 26,026 Forumite
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    Why can't you find anyone to move in? Is the price too high or is there something wrong with the flat? What about looking for an existing house share to rent a room in?
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  • westv
    westv Posts: 6,506 Forumite
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    Unfortunately as a single (?) male you will be bottom of the pile.
  • Leviathan2009
    Leviathan2009 Posts: 110 Forumite
    wulfhere wrote: »
    Hi, I live in a shared flat, which I am soon going to have to leave as I am unable to find people to move in.

    I'm unemployed, male, 31.

    As far as I'm aware, my only option is to move into council housing. How quickly can this process happen? I suppose it depends on availability and all that, but then I would have thought that I'd be a low priority.

    Council housing? Good luck with that - they have been so depleted of stock by the "Right to Screw everyone else" scheme that they are hardly any properties left. And those that are left are taken up by the dredges of society or what are classified as "need cases".
  • Leviathan2009
    Leviathan2009 Posts: 110 Forumite
    westv wrote: »
    Unfortunately as a single (?) male you will be bottom of the pile.

    Very true - a society today looks unfavourably upon anyone being a white, single, childless male.
  • Wickedkitten
    Wickedkitten Posts: 1,868 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    surely getting a job is faster
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  • tiff
    tiff Posts: 6,608 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Savvy Shopper!
    Someone else on here got a lodger by advertising on http://www.spareroom.co.uk/ if thats any help.
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  • BASFORDLAD
    BASFORDLAD Posts: 2,418 Forumite
    Yes spareroom.co.uk is very good, get an advert on there asap, its free, also gumtree and various other sites!. If you try you will get someone pretty quickly.
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  • phil1873football
    phil1873football Posts: 142 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Yes I agree with a few of the previous posters. I am a single childless white male...you have to be VERY lucky to get a council house if thats your current status in this disaster of a country...a government who would much rather send millions to try and sort out every other country in the world's problems and forget about their own [EMAIL="d@mn"]d@mn[/EMAIL] people.

    I get the impression the UK is a sinking ship!!
  • inmypocketnottheirs
    inmypocketnottheirs Posts: 4,745 Forumite
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    phil1873football wrote: »

    I get the impression the UK is a sinking ship!!

    Think that should be 'stinking'.... :rolleyes:
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  • Oldernotwiser
    Oldernotwiser Posts: 37,425 Forumite
    Why on earth should any system supply subsidised housing for a healthy single male of 31?
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