kerrier council are throwing my family on the streets

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PasturesNew wrote: »

Redruth has a good town centre these days

Are we thinking of the same Redruth?

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Mum_of_3 wrote: »

Unfortunately OP, I totally agree with all the all of the above posters.

I grew up in Cornwall and all of my family and lots of friends still live there. I know lots of people who are born and bred in Cornwall and would love (and deserve) council housing, but because they are so few and far between they stand hardly any chance of getting them.


M_o_3

Seconded by someone else who grew up in the area.

neas

i do think this is 'turn up in lovely holiday area' and want free house kinda thing too lol.

You lived in surrey, go an live in scotland its prob easier supply . Im sure if you went to florida with no job, no money, no house they'd deport you back to where ever you came from... some things in life you have to work hard for, otherwise i'd love to get housed in cornwall.

Btw im in devon and the council houses suck around here... then again there a whole community of council/housing association around the centre of my town..

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PasturesNew wrote: »

Here's one with half price application fees and benefits accepted with a guarantor. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-26596123.html

That seems to be the one I linked to, but on with a second LA, which seems to indicated they really, really want to let it OP! Why don't you give one of the LAs a call and view it?

OK so Redruth may not be the place where you want to live, but surely it's better than a car?

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terryw

neas wrote: »

i do think this is 'turn up in lovely holiday area' and want free house kinda thing too lol.

You lived in surrey, go an live in scotland its prob easier supply . Im sure if you went to florida with no job, no money, no house they'd deport you back to where ever you came from... some things in life you have to work hard for, otherwise i'd love to get housed in cornwall.

Btw im in devon and the council houses suck around here... then again there a whole community of council/housing association around the centre of my town..

Judging by other threads, a fair number of people have turned up in the most expensive parts of London and been provided with free houses!

debrag

Maye the OP can't get a guarantor

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terryw wrote: »

Judging by other threads, a fair number of people have turned up in the most expensive parts of London and been provided with free houses!

I've not heard much about people moving from other parts of the UK to say Kensington and expecting to get a house, however I know of lots of single people and families that have turned up in Cornwall expecting to get housed by the LA.

Most of the threads I have read on here about homeless people in London are from people who have grown up in London. Maybe I have missed dozens of threads about people from say, Yorkshire, Devon and Lincolnshire moving to London and declaring themselves homeless, if I have then I apologise.

Those Asylum Seekers you read about in the paper that get housed in very expensive houses I suspect are few and far between, which is exactly why they do end up in the press.

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terryw

I was being a tad flippant in my earlier post. Unfortunately it might well be a problem for the local authority for Kensington if people arrive there and require their legal obligation to housing to be fulfilled as they are in that area.

Apologies for going off-topic.

terryw

As a p.s to the post above, the latest bunch claiming £2000 per week were not "asylum-seekers" but people who were perfectly entitled to LHA. Asylum-seekers are not entitled to LHA.

Second apologies for going off-topic.

Wee_Willy_Harris

Mum_of_3 wrote: »

I've not heard much about people moving from other parts of the UK to say Kensington and expecting to get a house, however I know of lots of single people and families that have turned up in Cornwall expecting to get housed by the LA.

Most of the threads I have read on here about homeless people in London are from people who have grown up in London. Maybe I have missed dozens of threads about people from say, Yorkshire, Devon and Lincolnshire moving to London and declaring themselves homeless, if I have then I apologise.

Those Asylum Seekers you read about in the paper that get housed in very expensive houses I suspect are few and far between, which is exactly why they do end up in the press.

M_o_3

One of the requirements in accepting a homeless "duty to house" is that the applicant has a local connection within the LA area, ie has close family who will provide support or has lived in the area for 6 out of the last 12 months or 3 out or the last 5 years, or has employment in the area. In some cases, educational placements can also be counted but only if they are not available in the applicants own area. If these criteria aren't met, a decision may still be made but, if accepted, the duty to house would be refered back to the original area. Obviously, with fleeing violence, the local connection criteria are ignored.