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pmlindyloo

darlyd wrote: »

If it is just you and your child then you will be placed into a woman's refuge. Just going by the advice we were giving for my niece, she was dreading it so scared but it was fine. As soon as her child is born then she can bid for a property but she will not be priority as she has a home in the hostel. Might be different where you are.

Like other posters have said, the more info you can give the more help we can give.

Did you really mean that? My understanding is that a women's refuge is for those women fleeing from violence.

I believe that different councils use different places - my local council sometimes uses a motel in a different county! - I suppose you could call that lateral thinking!

Of course, as everyone has said, without further info. we can't help much more.

emsywoo123

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/54022575#Comment_54022575

2 days ago?

midnight_express

In another post on 24/6/12 the OP posted that she and her partner were both unemployed and living with her Mum. This sounds like a ploy to try and jump the housing queue. If you make yourself homeless you aren't entitled to any help.

LunaLady

midnight_express wrote: »

In another post on 24/6/12 the OP posted that she and her partner were both unemployed and living with her Mum. This sounds like a ploy to try and jump the housing queue. If you make yourself homeless you aren't entitled to any help.

No wonder the OP hasn't been back!

pmlindyloo

midnight_express wrote: »

In another post on 24/6/12 the OP posted that she and her partner were both unemployed and living with her Mum. This sounds like a ploy to try and jump the housing queue. If you make yourself homeless you aren't entitled to any help.

I never posted on the other thread because it had all turned a bit nasty.
I wonder if the OP has received some advice from elsewhere. (Edit, yes, she has!)

My understanding is that if the OP's mother could write a letter saying that she doesn't want them there because...............and it's overcrowded and she wants them out in the next.......then the OP would not be found intentionally homeless. After all, again, my understanding, the OP has no legal right to live there.

I suspect that the OP has gone this route and is about to make a homeless application and hence the talk of a hostel.

I would rather not start a discussion about the moral aspect of this particularly since the latest news about stopping HB for young people and making them stay at home!

However, as I said, this is my understanding of the situation regarding the criteria for homelessness.

Darlyd

pmlindyloo wrote: »

Did you really mean that? My understanding is that a women's refuge is for those women fleeing from violence.

I believe that different councils use different places - my local council sometimes uses a motel in a different county! - I suppose you could call that lateral thinking!

Of course, as everyone has said, without further info. we can't help much more.

They said because she was a young woman was pregnant putting her in hostel with single men would not be a good idea. She had 2 choices, a family hostel with partners etc OR a womans refuge. She chose the refuge. (Much more support for her needs).

If the op is indeed living with her mum and the mum wants her out (or she wants to jump the que) then a letter from her mother etc and filling in the council forms etc will place her in the same band as what she would get in a hostel anyway.

skintandscared_2

But from the other thread it looks more like they are a couple (in their 30's) with a child who just want their own place away from living with the parents, but need a council house as neither of them work?

mazza111

Not all hostels are full of druggies either. Remember more and more people are losing their homes due to redundancy and such. Usually you would have a room that has a lock. So you can keep yourself to yourself as much as you want to.

Soapn

skintandscared wrote: »

But from the other thread it looks more like they are a couple (in their 30's) with a child who just want their own place away from living with the parents, but need a council house as neither of them work?

unbelievable, no wonder the Tories are having to crackdown on stuff, it's because of people like them who want everything given on a plate!