Getting on list for council house/housing association

Cakeguts

From the council's point of view you do not need a council house because you and your disabled son have got somewhere to live now. The fact that you son is disabled doesn't mean that you will get a council house because your son has somewhere to live now. There are no spare council houses in many places so they only go to people who don't have anywhere to live. You are not in this position you have somewhere to live. The kind of person who might not have anywhere to live could be someone whose landlord has evicted them because the landlord wants to sell the house they are living in. The council will not give a house to someone who has been evicted because they didn't pay their rent because that would mean that you had become homeless on purpose.

If you have somewhere to live what you have to do is to get on the council house list.

dekaspace

AG47 wrote: »

Somebody said you have to wait until you are in default on your rent, then get a notice from your landlord, then and only then will you get offered a house.

But is there not a way to get on the waiting list before that?

My friend with severe mental health problems who has attempted suicide, was sectioned on more than one occasion and his breakdown meant he became thousands in debt was given zero points as he literally slept on a sofa at his dads house thus wasn't homeless.


So its not easy unless you are lucky


On the other hand where I live now I waited 6 weeks but I had 80 points due to disabilities, my bathroom ceiling collpasing and severe mould causing breathing problems, death threats from upstairs neighbour


Even though I got a place I only got 80 points and I needed 140 to be classed as elligable for a property, it was just as a few properties became available in very undesirable areas (put it this way, its drug dealers, junkies and alcoholics in most of the social housing on my estate)


But the rent is cheap, repairs are quick and high quality and I am only a mile and a half from town centre.

sulphate

AG47 wrote: »

Now they are saying unless you have an eviction letter they won't put you on the list

Yes, but, presuming you can afford to pay your rent now, please don't deliberately let yourself get in arrears. If you can afford to pay your rent currently and stop paying with the intention of getting into a council property you may be deemed "intentionally homeless" and the council may refuse to house you.

sevenhills

HampshireH wrote: »

This won't be the case if you put yourself in that situation and make yourself intentionally homeless.

Families sometimes sleep in their car and get into the newspapers, at least that is what they claim; they probably get housed.

HampshireH

Most councils have a policy on intentional homelessness and remove any duty of care as a result of.

AG47

HampshireH wrote: »

As I said in a previous post they often assess on housing need.

If you are housed they are likely to not seem you a priority. The eviction notice puts you at risk and therefore you become more of a priority to some (most) councils.

This won't be the case if you put yourself in that situation and make yourself intentionally homeless.

I'm not in need right now, but I want to get on the list so that if or when the need arises I have already been on the list