Council Housing - help - 10 year requirement

seashore22

The op used the crackingbones user name and this one on the other thread.

Missus_Hyde

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

How have you posters connected the OP with crackingbones?

You do realise both posters are only using a stock avvy, don't you?

everyday7 wrote: »

Hi it's me crackingbones some error with the username.

Most developers allow you to reassign, so I can buy a off plan property, pay the deposit and if something happens and I don't want to complete I can reassign I.e sell the property to someone else. It's fairly common. I am not looking to do this but it's a good option to have if for some reason like job loss If I am unable to get a mortgage to buy. I am starting to think the risk outweighs the benefits but maybe if I had the balls I could make a killing.

Another post from OP's previous thread.

Curiouser and curiouser? :think: :whistle:

Cakeguts

I think what this means is that someone who has only lived in the borough for 5 years will not get a council house for at least another 5 years and probably much longer which means there is no chance of exercising right to buy in order to get a property in the hope that crossrail will increase the value?

TELLIT01

I don't know how many councils have similar housing policies of living x years in the area before you can get on the housing list. It does however seem to be generally a good idea as it will exclude economic migrants from queue jumping.
I know it's a system which can also cause problems if enacted too rigidly. When I worked for DWP I had a claimant who had lived most of their life in Cornwall, moved to Devon for a job and only living there for a year or so. There were problems which meant they desperately needed to get back to Cornwall, but the council there wouldn't help because of this residency rule.

nannytone_2

TELLIT01 wrote: »

I don't know how many councils have similar housing policies of living x years in the area before you can get on the housing list. It does however seem to be generally a good idea as it will exclude economic migrants from queue jumping.
I know it's a system which can also cause problems if enacted too rigidly. When I worked for DWP I had a claimant who had lived most of their life in Cornwall, moved to Devon for a job and only living there for a year or so. There were problems which meant they desperately needed to get back to Cornwall, but the council there wouldn't help because of this residency rule.

i used to live in the london borough of barking and dagenham.
we had a major influx of bosnian/kosovan refugees at the end of the 90's.
my son wasn't even accepted onto the list because he was working and deemed to have no need.

i presume the situation was the same in many boroughs and the outcome is many 30/40 somethings still living with parents.
when the parents die the tenancies will not pass on.
in the future there will be many more in the situation of being unable to afford to rent and being too poor to buy.
many of these, probably the majority, are working full time

Tigsteroonie

Missus_Hyde wrote: »

Another post from OP's previous thread.

Ta.
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Marie_Williams

Things seem to be very different where I live. Council housing allocated to people whose families own large properties. They live with family and put name down on waiting list, hey ho a few years later they are allocated a property. I think that, as they can stay living with parents in large house, they are deemed as needy, I was told "they are entitled to their own home" Once someone, who cannot squeeze into parents property, and have to rent privately, they then eliminate themselves from list by being in a private let. A number of Local Authority Houses by me have been let to people whose parents live in the same area in very large properties. When I was in work a client had 5 children but was renting privately, he could not get a Council property because he had foolishly rented privately, the Landlord wanted the house back and he had to look for another rental suitable for 5 children. This man worked. I felt really sorry for him.