Advice req council flats

nannytone_2

Charityworker wrote: »

I waited 10 years for social housing and I was in desperate need twice.

it really does depend which area you love in.
i only waited 7 weeks.

Charityworker

nannytone wrote: »

it really does depend which area you love in.
i only waited 7 weeks.

I'm in Suffolk. My MIL waited 2 weeks in London.

Gentile

Pocketspring, the benefits system was designed to help people with exactly this kind of situation. The genuine people who are in need of help from state. I hope you do get a house and are able to live on your own but sadly I think all social housing has been gobbled up by perfectly fine able bodied people who refuse to vacate the council house now that they have no need for it.

Good luck !

tanith

You should apply to your local housing dept, you may find them very helpful in your circumstances and especially as you don't get on with your parent. You may have to wait but being on the list can't do any harm and you may be surprised at the help available.

lighting_up_the_chalice

pocketstrings wrote: »

What is CBL? I tried googling it but came up with a lot of things that clearly weren't what you meant.

Sorry, my fault. CBL = Choice Based Lettings.

paddedjohn

Gentile wrote: »

Pocketspring, the benefits system was designed to help people with exactly this kind of situation. The genuine people who are in need of help from state. I hope you do get a house and are able to live on your own but sadly I think all social housing has been gobbled up by perfectly fine able bodied people who refuse to vacate the council house now that they have no need for it.

Good luck !

The benefit system was not designed to help people is this type of situation at all, it was designed as a safety net for people who need help when they are hungry and need a roof over their heads. The OP is already living in a house but WANTS to move, there is a vast difference.

iluvmarmite

Gentile wrote: »

Pocketspring, the benefits system was designed to help people with exactly this kind of situation. The genuine people who are in need of help from state. I hope you do get a house and are able to live on your own but sadly I think all social housing has been gobbled up by perfectly fine able bodied people who refuse to vacate the council house now that they have no need for it.

Good luck !

Social housing was designed as affordable housing for those in need, not just for the disabled, I would never vacate my HA flat unless I won the lottery and could afford to by a house outright.

Why would anyone leave a secure house to maybe go private rented with the risk of the landlord wanting the house back at some point and them having to constantly move?

pocketstrings

isn't that a bit harsh, padded john and iluvmarmite? (genuine question) I'm in my mid thirties, very seriously disabled with no hope of cure or improvement, completely unable to work, basically living in a bedroom at a parents' /very/ small house. I may be wrong, but I thought I had more hope of, say, housing benefit than you say. If, after all, there are plenty of people in work, albeit on small wages, who claim housing benefit or council houses? One could say they should move back to their parents' until the day they die. Maybe that is what you say, I don't know, that seems the only logical extension to your argument. I mean that genuinely, I'm not picking a fight, I don't have the strength.

paddedjohn

pocketstrings wrote: »

I don't know if I could manage to live alone (and thank you for asking), but I've been here ten years now and we don't really get on and it's a /very/ small place. I'm in my thirties now and think I'd prefer my own place if I can cope. But yes, it's quite possible I won't cope and iwll be incredibly isolated. Guess I can only try.

I think I'd definitely be entitled to housing benefit, and a friend who lives abroad has even said she'd rent me her place here, but I've been told I'll never be cured, never work again and ideally I'd love my own place (ie a council flat). I don't know what to do as I think I'd be given a lot of 'brownie points' in my current situation for a council flat, but obviously I guess it could still take years.

If I move out and rent privately I'd be in a home so I assume I'd (quite rightly) lose some of those points.

Also, I don't know if you are allowed to go on the list if you are already renting a place because then you'd be housed.

I don't know what to do.

You yourself admit in your first sentence above that you don't think you could manage on your own, without wanting to sound harsh who is going to look after you when you move away from your parents. Sure council housing is open to everyone and rightly so but some councils have a shortage of property's and they allocate their stock on a need basis not a want basis.

pocketstrings

I will look after me, with drop-in type help from friends abd relatives if needed, which would not be so different from my current situation. In doing that I will not even be doing what plenty of people do which is live in a council house or LHA privte rental and relying on social care which they pay for.

I think you are misunderstanding about need not want - there are plenty of people in less need than me being helped with housing of one kind or another and I never suggested for one moment that I thought my needs were greatest or that I assumed I would get a place, just that I could try for one. I believe, for example, that someone disabled to the point of being incapable of work and living on the street should be way higher on the list than me. And someone capable of work should be lower. Doesn't work like that, but it's what I believe. I have never in my life tried to get anything that wasn't fair. Plenty of people in the world try to do this, but I'm not one of them.