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IveSeenTheLight

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I'm afraid I don't know the relative importance of the criteria, just that they are relevant.

Does that mean you have made an assumption?

ILW

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Most single mothers don't choose to be. To punish the lot because a few take the !!!! is pointless and counter productive.

With the exception of divorcees and widows, yes they do.

chewmylegoff

ILW wrote: »

With the exception of divorcees and widows, yes they do.

So, if the bloke decides to up and leave and pay nothing, that was her choice was it?

ILW

chewmylegoff wrote: »

So, if the bloke decides to up and leave and pay nothing, that was her choice was it?

If she did not get a contract (marriage) and then decided to get pregnant it was her choice. I did say excluding divorced and widowed.

mattcanary

tillycat123 wrote: »

Whilst you seem a very decent person I don't see that 8 years later you should still be there!

These houses should be seen as a short term stop gap whilst you sort yourself out, not a life long cheap house, I also see from your other posts you are or were looking to buy it.

This is also where it is very wrong, these houses should not be for sale at all.

We would all love a nice area with a nice big garden, but you have to earn it before you can get it just like everyone else, not be allowed to stay there forever, it's ridiculous.

What a load of !!!!!!!!. You're just jealous of people paying less for their housing than you because they had the foresight to put themselves on the housing resgister serveral years ago. Yoou should have done the same - instead of being forced to pay for rip-off private rents

mattcanary

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Oh purlease. Don't talk cack.

My dad used to do the work replacing these items. And the tenants were NOT charged, as they could not pay.

There IS a charge, you are correct. BUT, it hardly ever actually gets paid. It's just politics.



There are quite a few that come furnished. Usually the houses that have been available for a year or so, which were "intended" to be sold on the open market, at prices no one will pay, so always revert back to HA stock. Again, more politics. These often come furnished with white goods....normally washing machines and cookers.


However, many may be getting confused with the grant people can often get to buy such goods when they get a home to buy these things.

Norwich City Council have been selling some of their stock recently in auctions. The houses are going for around £20 -25 000 above the guide price too...

chewmylegoff

ILW wrote: »

If she did not get a contract (marriage) and then decided to get pregnant it was her choice. I did say excluding divorced and widowed.

Given that a marriage certificate imposes no additional obligations of any kind on a parent, it is completely irrelevant.

mattcanary

ILW wrote: »

HA properties are allocated on a basis of need (in theory) problem is that the definitions of need can be rather skewed. For example, a medical condition can increase eligibilty, which seems OK until you realise that being an alcoholic or hard drug user counts as a medical condition.

No, for the vast majority oflocal authority areas nowadays, choice-based letting letting is used.

You are confusing the hmelessness route into council (or housing association) homes with that of the normal route for non homeless people. You're ignorant basically

Wee_Willy_Harris

mattcanary wrote: »

No, for the vast majority oflocal authority areas nowadays, choice-based letting letting is used.

You are confusing the hmelessness route into council (or housing association) homes with that of the normal route for non homeless people. You're ignorant basically

I have to pull you up on that one. Even CBL has priorities, including homelessness. Where CBL is employed as a method of allocation, there is no separate homeless route. The statutory homeless duty is discharged via the CBL bidding process and appropriate priority.

mattcanary

Jimmy_31 wrote: »

I have no access to a council property due to me being a single working man therefore we do not all have access to help.

You would have access to it - if you had bothered putting your name on the housing register several years ago and then followed up that interest (if you live within a local authority area that has adoped choice-based letting). You didn;t - your loss.

Of course you could put your name on the list today if you wanted to. Instead of bleating on about how hard done by you are and slamming everyone that lives in social housing - regardless of what their individual circumstances are. You're an ignorant idiot!