Homeless Dilemma. Help.

lighting_up_the_chalice

Being harsh, you simply cannot afford to live in London. Either increase your income, or move. Simples.

[Deleted User]

How come there are people poorer than me, jobless, with drinking/drugs problems, anti-social behaviour, etc, living in London?

NYM

How did you get on yesterday ? Any luck?

[Deleted User]

The landlords had the whole day schedule with viewings. Not sure what is the correct procedure…do I contact them? Will they contact the applicant they like the best? I will email or call them tomorrow.

sheramber

Deleted_User wrote: »

How come there are people poorer than me, jobless, with drinking/drugs problems, anti-social behaviour, etc, living in London?

Are they living a two bedroom house in a good area?

Would you be prepared to live where they are living?

[Deleted User]

sheramber wrote: »

Are they living a two bedroom house in a good area?

Would you be prepared to live where they are living?

Yes. They live in the area where I live now.

lighting_up_the_chalice

Deleted_User wrote: »

Yes. They live in the area where I live now.

Perhaps you would be better off discussing your issues with them? They have, after all, solved the problems you are experiencing. This is just a web forum.

[Deleted User]

It is incredibly hard to get real stories of people's experiences, I don't know why.
They must be made to sign a confidential agreement or something.
Not joking.

BigAunty

You are wasting time comparing your experiences with others. It's not productive. There is no 'secret' that they are party to that you have been shut out of. You know why you are having trouble securing a tenancy.

I imagine the majority of tenants all around you have higher incomes, but your focus is elsewhere.

It is understandable that you are bitter about finding you are at the bottom of the pile for a tenancy in one of the most expensive cities in the world where it's population increase is far higher than the rate of building new homes. It has a huge supply versus demand imbalance.

It's not personal - its about lack of infrastructure - but it will feel personal to you because there's so many tenants chasing each vacant property.

Choosing to focus your attention on those you feel are less worthy of tenancies is a waste of time and energy. What do you hope to get out of that approach anyway?

London has the highest population out of all the cities in Europe, and not just by a little, but by a huge margin - it's over twice the population of the next city, Berlin.

So yeah, with 8.5million residents, it's going to house some destitute people, the !!!!less and lazy as well as the 'working poor' which you belong to (but didn't to such a high degree last year when you were a 2 earner household).

I don't think you are really accepting your position if, many months on, all you can do is complain that it's not fair. It's not fair - you are right. You need to move on, either emotionally and/or geographically.

sheramber

Deleted_User wrote: »

Yes. They live in the area where I live now.

Maybe they have found landlords who will take DSS tenants.

You had such a landlord but he wants the house back.

Now you can't find an other one in the area you want to stay.

Perhaps these landlords have let all their houses already.

Perhaps these people had to move to your area to get a house but would rather have stayed where they were.