Housing Association emergency front door replacement.

Eton_Rifle

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

Even HA tenants are taxpayers.

Yes, so what's your point? Forgive me, I don't understand.

ILW

Just because someone is a HA tenant, does not mean they need to take no personal responsibility for anything. People need to realise that there are consequences for their actions and being housed by the state does not aggregate that.
The OP does seem to live in that strange dependency world where everything is expected to be taken care of by others.

Wee_Willy_Harris

Eton_Rifle wrote: »

Yes, so what's your point? Forgive me, I don't understand.

I was responding to (And even quoted) your post.......

Eton_Rifle wrote: »

The taxpayer has even paid for the fire-service to come to his flat and saved you all from burning to death because of this stupidity yet all you can think about is compensation for the damage caused in the attempt to save your lives?

Which implies that taxpayers and the OP are two separate entities. Just pointing out that this isn't the case.

FOXGLOVE_2

ILW wrote: »

Just because someone is a HA tenant, does not mean they need to take no personal responsibility for anything. People need to realise that there are consequences for their actions and being housed by the state does not aggregate that.
The OP does seem to live in that strange dependency world where everything is expected to be taken care of by others.

Both myself, my partner and my neighbour work, pay tax, pay rent and are not housed by the state, we rent from a Housing Association.

It seems that you live in a strange assumptive world where everyone renting from HA is on the dole, taking handouts and contributing nothing.

The reason for me asking on here is because I feel bad for my neighbour who has only recently moved, is struggling to make ends meet on a low wage and thought I'd ask to see if anyone has advice to help.

Jowo_2

FOXGLOVE wrote: »

The reason for me asking on here is because I feel bad for my neighbour who has only recently moved, is struggling to make ends meet on a low wage and thought I'd ask to see if anyone has advice to help.

Might be worth getting your neighbour to put their financial circumstances into the Entitled to website to make sure they are receiving all the benefits, credits and allowances they are entitled to.

Jowo_2

FOXGLOVE wrote: »

It seems that you live in a strange assumptive world where everyone renting from HA is on the dole, taking handouts and contributing nothing.

Or we live in a world where tenants honour their obligations as per their contract, pay the replacement cost for an item they damaged and insure their property and belongings rather than expect the landlord to foot the bill.

FOXGLOVE_2

FOXGLOVE wrote: »

Anyone else been in this situation and what else can be done? Do they take peoples incomes into account or do most councils/housing associations just expect you to pay?

I refer to my original post.

As I've already mentioned, I came on here asking if anyone knows the procedure or if they replace the door and leave him with a bill or if he has to pay full amount before door is replaced.

I was replying to ILW's post suggesting myself and/or my neighbour are dependant on others to support me and we are housed 'by the state'.

Still not sure what they mean by that. I assume they mean that our rent is paid by housing benefit and we live here for free.

Wrong.

poppysarah

They will repair and charge him after. That's how it usually works. They may seek agreement about the payment plan before doing it - or not - he will have to ring them on monday.
I assume it's been made secure over the weekend?

benoit

Nobody on a forum can tell you what the usual procedure is with your own HA because they all do things differently, you need to ask them directly. In our case the tenant who was negligent had to pay them to do the work, which lead to months of her refusing access because she didn't see why she should pay for the damage she caused to HA property.

FOXGLOVE_2

poppysarah wrote: »

They will repair and charge him after. That's how it usually works. They may seek agreement about the payment plan before doing it - or not - he will have to ring them on monday.
I assume it's been made secure over the weekend?

The door kind of snapped down the middle as they kicked it in so they sent someone out to nail two bits of board across it so he can get the door closed. He said he'll let me know what happens so hopefully he can pay extra in his rent or something.