Council Housing & Tenant Advice

Unknown1234_2

Hapless wrote: »

135k for a 3 bed flat. 3.5 x 28k = 98k.
with the housing market at the moment it is the wrong time to buy. I certainly wouldn't risk it.
Council housing give security of tenancy, private rent does not.

My partner was on 10.5K and i was on 18K we got an 135K.

Unknown1234_2

newlywed wrote: »

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).

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

Unknown1234_2

bestpud wrote: »

Revenge????

newlywed

Melissa_Hewett wrote: »

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

You aren't completely wrong.

Council houses are initially allocated to people in extreme need of housing.

However, once they have been allocated a council house, it is theirs until they breach the tenancy agreement or leave.

Unknown1234_2

aaroncaz wrote: »

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?

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

Hapless_2

Melissa_Hewett wrote: »

My partner was on 10.5K and i was on 18K we got an 135K.

You were lucky, A friend of mine earns £30,000 a year and can only get a £90,000 mortgage! Took her 8 attempts to get a mortgage. Banks are not so happy to lend in this current climate.

bestpud

Well, as I see it, you can't do anything about the house, however jealous you may be, but if you are sure they are claiming benefits then you can report them as on that income they probably should not be getting HB.

Perhaps it would be better to accept the friendship is over and get on with your life?

Unknown1234_2

newlywed wrote: »

You aren't completely wrong.

Council houses are initially allocated to people in extreme need of housing.

However, once they have been allocated a council house, it is theirs until they breach the tenancy agreement or leave.

I just needed some information

aaroncaz

Hapless wrote: »

You were lucky, A friend of mine earns £30,000 a year and can only get a £90,000 mortgage! Took her 8 attempts to get a mortgage. Banks are not so happy to lend in this current climate.

My brother in ,london earns 30 a year, was offered 135, you can imagine what this can buy? nothing!! and no he's not in a council house, but i bet he wishes he was, he pays over 700 a month to private rent!!

Hapless_2

newlywed wrote: »

You aren't completely wrong.

Council houses are initially allocated to people in extreme need of housing.

However, once they have been allocated a council house, it is theirs until they breach the tenancy agreement or leave.

Unless they are houses that people do not want.."easy in" houses, every council has them, usually a bit run down (like ours), in a bad area or too big/small for those on the current waiting list.