getting moved

princesgirl

hi all i am new 2 this site, in fact only find it 2day and already hocked, but on reading ur posts notice how helpful u guys can be. so i hope u can help me.
i live in a 2 bedroom house, i am a single mother of 3 kids, i am currently on benefits. now my problem is trying to get moved into a 3 bedroom house. my kids r 2 boys and 1 girl and they r all sharing the same bedroom. the boys r 11 and 8, my little girl is 3. i have been told that they should not be in the same room cause of there ages, but trying to get moved just seems impossible, housing dont seem 2 do nothing.
Any ideals plzz

Lotus-eater

Council houses are in short supply.

I know of people with two or three kids who have to buy or rent their houses themselves and they can't afford a three bedroom place.

charliee_3

id say you are lucky to be in council housing and they cant just magic a house out of nowhere since they sold them all for silly money a few years back...
you could always have the girl in your room? a girls room and a boys room so to speak?
or is it big enough to put a partition in? when i was a child my friend used to share with her brother and they had a curtain spitting the room in two.. not ideal, but few things in life are...

or another idea is to have some more kids so they have to move you (that was a joke BTW!)

Cissi

Is there any way that you yourself could share a room with your little girl? I realise that this isn't ideal either, but perhaps a better solution than sharing with her brothers, at least for a while?
My sister is in a similar position but not in council housing and she is sharing a room with my niece (also 3) as there is no way she can afford a bigger place.

Running_Horse

charliee wrote: »

id say you are lucky to be in council housing

Where did the OP say she was in council housing?

Cannon_Fodder

Running_Horse wrote: »

Where did the OP say she was in council housing?

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princesgirl wrote: »

housing dont seem 2 do nothing...

Running_Horse

Still doesn't follow.

Bogof_Babe

Couldn't the OP sleep on a sofabed in the living room so that the girl can have the second bedroom?

Cissi

Running_Horse wrote: »

Still doesn't follow.

I may be missing something, but why else would she talk about "getting moved"?

Lotus-eater

wheretheresawill wrote: »

meow, get those claws out...seems like theres a bit of the green eyed monster when it comes to council/HA accomodation; if house prices and rents had'nt skyrocketed it wouldnt be seen as such a 'cheap' option. It amuses me GREATLY .....I have a lovely housing assoc property, beautiful estate - £350 a month, repairs service when I need it, same property would cost me £650 to rent privately BUT i'm using this as a means to do something with my life, a stepping stone whilst my wages are low until I make my way up the career ladder whereby I vacate my home for somebody else in need and buy a property. I see it almost as a monthly tax rebate - which I will save.
People shouldnt demand the 'right' to a bigger home although as most people in the system already know this is virtually impossible. There are many needy people out there living on amounts of money some on this site probably spend in a day

I'm jealous for stating the truth?
I'm not jealous in the slightest of someone that lives in a council house. I'm annoyed that alot of them were sold off without new ones being built.
You have alot of words but you say very little. Mainly that you are amused by people having to pay more in rent than you, that's nice for you. Also that you say people shouldn't have the right to demand a bigger council house. So you're allowed to say what I was sort of saying, but I'm jealous when I say it.

I'm happy for you that you have a lovely house at a cheap rent, which is very nice for you and probably makes the OP feel really great about herself.

Cissi

wheretheresawill wrote: »

meow, get those claws out...seems like theres a bit of the green eyed monster when it comes to council/HA accomodation; if house prices and rents had'nt skyrocketed it wouldnt be seen as such a 'cheap' option. It amuses me GREATLY .....I have a lovely housing assoc property, beautiful estate - £350 a month, repairs service when I need it, same property would cost me £650 to rent privately BUT i'm using this as a means to do something with my life, a stepping stone whilst my wages are low until I make my way up the career ladder whereby I vacate my home for somebody else in need and buy a property. I see it almost as a monthly tax rebate - which I will save.

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I'm jealous for stating the truth?
I'm not jealous in the slightest of someone that lives in a council house. I'm annoyed that alot of them were sold off without new ones being built.
You have alot of words but you say very little. Mainly that you are amused by people having to pay more in rent than you, that's nice for you.

I'm not jealous either - I'm glad to see that my tax money helps fund someone like you "do something with your life" and also that the OP and her children have somewhere to live, even if it isn't ideal. The harsh reality however is that like many others the OP can't afford a larger house at the moment (hopefully sometime in the future) and will have to find a workable solution until she can.