housing benefit reduction. a solution but the council is blocking it!

nannytone_2

but you said that i was depriving a homeless person of accomodation.
doesnt sound like you thought i should get priority

Arachne_2

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

I am pleased for you, I know you were worried about paying the extra rent.

And a two-bedroom flat available for a couple or small family

Sorted!

Yes indeed, worth the wait eh

@GlasweJen - hopefully you'll be next in line for some housing luck

lighting_up_the_chalice

nannytone wrote: »

nominations to the HA on 5th May. phoned the nominated person 6th may. phoned and visited me today.

Allocations teams working on Sundays AND Bank Holidays? Unheard of.

Poppie68

Good news for your new flat allocated monday Nannytone...good luck.
Just a quick thought though, do your HA work bank holidays?

lighting_up_the_chalice

nannytone wrote: »

but you said that i was depriving a homeless person of accomodation.
doesnt sound like you thought i should get priority

Priority I have no issue with. By staying, you would be blocking a bigger property. Of course you should be given reasonable assistance to downsize. But I think our definitions of "reasonable" may differ widely.

Poppie68

lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »

Allocations teams working on Sundays AND Bank Holidays? Unheard of.

Oops beat me too it.:beer:

lighting_up_the_chalice

nannytone wrote: »

the counbcil do the checks before you are accepted onto the list. they did my checks.
i accept it was a bank holiday, so the council must have nominated tuesday.

With so very few 1 beds (as you keep telling us) a single person will be on the list for years (as you keep telling us) before being rehoused. So the HA will do further checks at the point of offer. It's just good practice.

nannytone wrote: »

you havent commented on my benefit, yet you happily say that people that receive HB shouldnt be allowed to over occupy because they are 'keeping a family in overcrowded conditions' yet say that people who under occupy but pay rent have been paying 'befroom tax' for years. so presu,ably because they are lucky enough to be able to work they can have as many unused bedrooms as they like? ( in social subsidised housing)

Just stating fact, that those who pay their own rent have been subject to a bedroom tax for years. It's nothing more and nothing less than the truth.

nannytone wrote: »

you also havent commented on disabilty apart from insist that disabled people should be prepared and expected to move where ever the 1 beds are regardless of where there support is..

If they want a 1 bed, of course they should. What other choice IS there?

bloolagoon

today i became aware that one of the tenants of the social housing flats is moving out tomorrow, and that they are no longer exclusively for young people. the council will be putting them up for bids next week ( it's already on the board in the council office, but no bids will be accepted until the internet site is updated over the weekend)


I suspect this is what Lighening up the Chalice is questioning. As bidding hasn't taken place yet as not next week the new tenant couldn't win and offer an exchange

Perhaps because it's a mutual exchange bidding didn't occur?

neverdespairgirl

nannytone wrote: »

just an uodate and sorry to those who will be disappointed ....

today i received the keys to my new flat. 2 doors away from where i live now, and built at the same time as my current property.
it also has a fully landscaped garden complete with large patio atra and garden shed

Is this a one bed flat? Are your problems with the reduction in housing benefit therefore sorted?

neverdespairgirl

nannytone wrote: »

is it an effort to be ridiculously inane?

bidding started april 29th. i found out on 2nd may that it had been reclassified. i phoned the HA the same day. 3ed may the HA xontacted the council who refused to withdraw it, bidding closed 5th may.
nominations to the HA on 5th May. phoned the nominated person 6th may. phoned and visited me today.

is that clearer for you now?

I don't think it is inanity, and it certainly isn't clearer. In your first post on this thread, you said:

today i became aware that one of the tenants of the social housing flats is moving out tomorrow, and that they are no longer exclusively for young people. the council will be putting them up for bids next week ( it's already on the board in the council office, but no bids will be accepted until the internet site is updated over the weekend)

That is what sounds weird. The tenants were moving out on 4th May, and no bids would be accepted until after the weekend (7th May, as bank holiday).

So it's all a bit confusing.