Council Housing & Tenant Advice

black-saturn

Even if they offer an elderly person a flat or sheltered housing they don't have to take it. My nan has lived in the same council house for about 62 years. She was offered a sheltered flat but refused as she wanted to stay where she was. They can't just move her out if she doesn't want to go.

Hapless_2

black-saturn wrote: »

Even if they offer an elderly person a flat or sheltered housing they don't have to take it. My nan has lived in the same council house for about 62 years. She was offered a sheltered flat but refused as she wanted to stay where she was. They can't just move her out if she doesn't want to go.

Exactly, the chap who had this house before us moved in in 1948, the year it was built. He vacated it last year by death! He lived here alone in a 4 bed house for the past 15 years.
Those are the people that are holding up the housing lists, not those who are working!

(nothing against your nan black saturn...just an example)

Unknown1234_2

aaroncaz wrote: »

Well you don't sound like you are a friend of this couple.

who is toosay, they won't buy in the future, either the council house or another? Many ppl stay in a council house untill they have saved enough.

i am not a friend anymore, i was very close to them.

They will buy in the future the house they are in now.

newlywed

If you have lived in a house for years and years, should you have to move just because you earn more money than when you (for example) were a single parent at 18 and took on the tenancy?

It's your home, with a life-long tenancy. Why should you be forced out of it for managing to pay the rent and have some money left over?


(PS I am not 18 or a single parent - it was just an example).

Unknown1234_2

black-saturn wrote: »

The whole idea of council housing is that it is secure. With privately renting you never know when the landlord is going to want to sell up or have you evicted for something silly.

It seems wierd that theres another thread somewhere on this board maoning about the low class people who occupy council housing and in this thread there is someone moaning that someone who occupies a council house is to high class for it. Seems council tenants can't win (and no I am not a council tenant).

Ive never said they are to high class, my understand is that council houses are for people who needed it, as i have been told i am wrong.

bestpud

Melissa_Hewett wrote: »

i am not a friend anymore, i was very close to them.

They will buy in the future the house they are in now.

Revenge????

Hapless_2

Melissa_Hewett wrote: »

They will buy in the future the house they are in now.

So will we if our situation changes, it's not as if they will make a quick buck on the house, they can't sell for 5 yrs and then within 10 yrs it has to be offered to social housing first at original purchase price.

Unknown1234_2

aaroncaz wrote: »

It doesn't work like that!! How many council houses do you see, with 2 cars or more in the drive? So because they are earning they should be kicked out? i would think so yes, so that they could rent/buy privately, levaing the council house for someone who cant afford to rent/buy privatelty council housing is an affordable way of renting.Not based on what you earn.

my understand is that council houses are for people who needed it, as i have been told i am wrong.

black-saturn

Hapless wrote: »

Exactly, the chap who had this house before us moved in in 1948, the year it was built. He vacated it last year by death! He lived here alone in a 4 bed house for the past 15 years.
Those are the people that are holding up the housing lists, not those who are working!

(nothing against your nan black saturn...just an example)

I agree. I'm in a bought house now but there have been times when I have been in desperate need of housing. I would look at my nan in that 3 bedroom house on her own and knew why I couldnt get housing. I was on the waiting list for 17 years and never offered anything at all.

aaroncaz

Melissa_Hewett wrote: »

i am not a friend anymore, i was very close to them.

They will buy in the future the house they are in now.

I'm sorry this just sounds like pettiness to me, what do you want, every tenant to be kicked out, if and when they start earning more?