do you know 'Housing Law' re: Children living in Flats

Torry_Quine

The flats I've lived in have had their own garden so that would seem a strange reason.

custardy

galangm8 wrote: »

Please elaborate.

If you need to ask...I despair

xylophone

Please elaborate.

This could be the answer.

The housing provider has offered her beautiful, brand new properties

LittleVoice

galangm8 wrote: »

No the property you exchange with must meet your household needs and a flat would not be considered for the same reason...child/children.

Sorry my post above should have read 'children under 7 are not allowed in flats above 2nd floor!

',,,does that mean children over 7 are, also that must mean any age is allowed on the first and second floors,

Just does not make sense, there must be many people on this forum who live in social housing flats with children,

I would read "children under 7 are not allowed in flats above 2nd floor" to mean that children of any age are allowed in flats up to and including the 2nd floor (thats ground, first and second in my English book but could mean ground and the next level) but that only children aged at least 7 are allowed to reside in flats on 3rd floor or above. That's my interpretation because it is an exclusion statement rather than inclusive.

terra_ferma

galangm8 wrote: »

Does anyone know the correct housing law regarding social housing providers not offering a tenancy to a family with a child under 16yrs for a flat.

galangm8 wrote: »

All I am asking is why do you think a policy would be made that a 14yr old can not live in a flat? I would say that was discrimination in itself.
I would jut like to know why they made that rule as other HA and councils state children over 7 cannot be above the 2nd floor. *confused*

Now I'm confused about what you actually want from this forum, maybe just have a good old moan?

Only the HA will be able to tell you why the have that policy, your friend can write a complaint asking why they have that policy, and explaining that she feels discriminated against. I can't see how anyone on this forum can read the mind of the people who designed that policy....
As for discrimination, I can't see how your friend can argue that, how she is negatively effected by not being able to live in a flat as opposed to a house. The other way round would be more like discrimination, a family without young children not being able to live in a house only based on age, rather than and individual assessment of needs.

Your friend would need to put a very good point across if she wants the HA to take her seriously. The kind of cases HA deal with involve people who don't have a home at all, live in very cramped conditions, or in properties in bad state of repairs (e.g. cold, damp, no room for children to do their homework), so they would need to hear something that would make them think your friend's quality of life is seriously effected by not being able to choose the property she wants.
I'm trying to give you some pointers here, a way forward for your friend to explain why she feels she really needs a flat and not a house.

caeler

I wish this was the case, my friend (and 2 children under 5yo) who is on the waiting list for housing is being forced to apply for flats despite having vertigo (a seriously bad case). Thankfully the council are working with her and trying where possible to bid on ground/second floor flats or houses.

terra_ferma

caeler wrote: »

I wish this was the case, my friend (and 2 children under 5yo) who is on the waiting list for housing is being forced to apply for flats despite having vertigo (a seriously bad case). Thankfully the council are working with her and trying where possible to bid on ground/second floor flats or houses.

I'm not familiar with vertigo (as a serious illness), but if it's covered by the Disability Discrimination Act (that is her day to day life is impaired by this illness) she may have a case to request ground floor only.

Yorkie1

terra_ferma wrote: »

I'm not familiar with vertigo (as a serious illness), but if it's covered by the Disability Discrimination Act (that is her day to day life is impaired by this illness) she may have a case to request ground floor only.

Minor point - it's the Equality Act 2010, not the DDA.

galangm8

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

The world gone mad - talk about a sense of entitlement.

Here's a crazy idea... she could always exercise free will and go and rent a flat in the private sector!

Wow, who rattled your cage? What's with all the negative, aggressive statements from you and other posters.... I was simply asking if anyone had had a personal experience or maybe knew some actual facts....

I've noted your 'crazy idea' you suggested, but she has exercised her free will and has rented in the private sector for the past 5 years after selling her OWN home, but there's only so many evictions you can take through landlords not paying their mortgages and I think loosing 3 x £500 deposits is quite ample.

She has strived all her life to avoid the shame, embarrassment of living in council/social housing , especially when having opinions of people like yourself but also because they're usually not very nice places.

As for the person who asked was i just having a moan:rotfl: not at all....I thought this forum gave personal experiences' *confused*.

....actually this lady is 'homeless' or she would be if she wasn't cramped next door with 6 people living in a 2 bed (2 children under 5)...her child cannot do homework in peace and quiet either...but then again beggars can't be choosers....but when you've kept yourself and your children in private homes all your life but are listed for over 10 years on HA and they're offering brand new properties you can.

God bless

ILW

galangm8 wrote: »

Wow, who rattled your cage? What's with all the negative, aggressive statements from you and other posters.... I was simply asking if anyone had had a personal experience or maybe knew some actual facts....

I've noted your 'crazy idea' you suggested, but she has exercised her free will and has rented in the private sector for the past 5 years after selling her OWN home, but there's only so many evictions you can take through landlords not paying their mortgages and I think loosing 3 x £500 deposits is quite ample.

She has strived all her life to avoid the shame, embarrassment of living in council/social housing , especially when having opinions of people like yourself but also because they're usually not very nice places.

As for the person who asked was i just having a moan:rotfl: not at all....I thought this forum gave personal experiences' *confused*.

....actually this lady is 'homeless' or she would be if she wasn't cramped next door with 6 people living in a 2 bed (2 children under 5)...her child cannot do homework in peace and quiet either...but then again beggars can't be choosers....but when you've kept yourself and your children in private homes all your life but are listed for over 10 years on HA and they're offering brand new properties you can.

God bless

Bit confused, is she turning down the offer of a brand new property?