Waiting list or Private rent. What do you think!

lifesuckssometimes

neas wrote: »

What does Band C mean? and 12 years is a long time... there no way you could save 50 quid a month over 12 years? which would come to 8000 pound or so for a deposit for ahouse.... that you'd own?

My credit rating is shot so mortgage is out of the question

Jowo_2

lifesuckssometimes wrote: »

My credit rating is shot so mortgage is out of the question

You can go to the debt board and find out how to repair this while saving up for a deposit over the next 5-10 years...

SouthCoast

A breakdown of the figures showed the longest projected wait was for social tenants in Chichester, where in 2008/9 5,922 households were waiting for a home and yet just 368 homes were let.
If the the situation continued at this pace, some tenants could still be waiting for a home in 2024 - in 16 years' time.

Brighton and Hove was projected to take 8.6 years to clear its backlog of 9,546 households, on the basis it continued to let at a rate of 1,100 homes a year, as it did in 2008/9.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/4803998.Thousands_of_people_on_housing_waiting_lists_in_Sussex/

Jowo_2

Only the OP knows from analysing the results for choice based letting bids if they have any realistic prospect of getting social housing in their area and whether their area is blighted with lists where lower priority applicants stand little chance of securing it, regardless or not of how long they are on it.

I never understand why there are articles which say x local authority will take x years to clear the waiting list. This assumes that there are no new people joining it so is unrealistic and also ignores less supply going forward.

People with low priority in the real world, like the OP, could continue to see higher priority cases leapfrog over them. Since the population is growing, people are living longer and social housing tenants tend to hold onto their tenancies for longer, the supply is getting more and more choked. There is little churn in some areas.

neas

aye... i'd work on it from two fronts... try to get yourself out of the mess as well as waiting on the list if you see what i mean.

I;d be peed waiting forever.... when if i'd started at start my credit rating could be restored... my debts repayed and a deposit saved..... sure it'd take a long time but i'd feel good about owning my own home like.

chickencurry

chickencurry wrote: »

Depends what council you are with? If its hermitage / portsmouth we have been waiting for 9 yrs for a 3 bed and still dont have one ...............
We are in band c

Just wanted to share to good news, this week we have been offered a 3 bedroom house after 10 years!!! Yipppeeee!! x

Fire_Fox

I-Owe-You wrote: »

Im in the same predicament, left home to move in with my partner (im in my mid 20s)

Cannot get social housing for love nor money (in London) and have been on the waiting list since I was 18. I now have to pay £840 pcm for a 2nd floor one bedroom flat in a not particuarly nice area, plus 1200 a year in council tax...(& we are supposedly in keyworker "cheaper rent" flats!)

People I went to school with have (perhaps irresponcibly??) fallen pregnant out of relationships, are living as a one parent families and had never worked a day in their lives are seemingly better off then me (a nurse on a modest income!) in their council housing which they have obviously been deemed more of a priority for over me.

There is just no incentive for younger people to bother to work nowadays unless you are earning 28K plus. Appart from having my pride, working does not appear to make me any better or worse off than those that see living off of the state benefits as a way of life.

Good luck with your social housing application - if your circumstances are anything like mine, you may be in for a long old wait!

Get out of London! Plenty of work for nurses in Bradford as we have shocking health stats; you can buy a one bed flat in the city centre for £45K or a two bed for £60K. Council tax half yours. :cool:

Congratulations to Chickencurry!

Snippa

I second get out of London. Here in Glasgow we have dreadful health stats, so loads of work for nurses, but it's a better place to live than Bradford Great nightlife in the city, and the West Coast, Highlands and Islands on your doorstep. Property is not cheap exactly, but massively cheaper than London. It does rain most of the time though