Homeless in 10 days refused RSL allocation

moneyistooshorttomention

Well - I was finding the whole idea of paying for a home that other people can "come and go in as they please" on the one hand, but not allowed visitors of my own really wierd. Presuming they checked through cupboards for evidence of booze - personally if I'd decided to get some then I would have done so and hidden it in the bed and would have been more likely than normal to buy some in the first place (just in order to prove to myself that I could do what I pleased as normal in my own home).

Glad it (sorta) worked out in the end. I'd be finding it very hard to accept that I'd lost being a home-owner due to no choice/fault of my own by the sound of what you've said and rented would be a bitter pill to swallow after that. But, thankfully, it sounds like you've got a decent rented place now.

Fosterdog

troffasky wrote: »

Paying £458 a week for something is not, in my book, being "given" it.

Whatever the cost was to OP it was emergency social housing, if they didn’t like it they didn’t have to accept it and could have chosen to leave and let somebody else in need have it. They also had £25,000 so could have paid for their own accommodation, emergency or otherwise if they didn’t like it. I’m sure they could have found somewhere much more suitable for that price.

I volunteer with a local homeless shelter and I could quite easily find a bus full of people who not only need somewhere like this but would appreciate it and not feel so entitled.

I really do have sympathy for OPs overall situation but the attitude towards the help they were given is baffling, but maybe they would have been happier to see their grandchildren out on the streets.