Allegations and invalid eviction served by housing association

LindaT66

Hello - new to these forums but wanted some advice.

I moved into a private rented HA home around a year ago, just as a new tenancy was due to be issued, the housong officer served an invalid notice to evict with various concerns of ASB - all untrue.

Sought advice from local council, they contacted HA and suddenly the tenancy is extended - so no longer an eviction.

Ever since I have been here, the housing officer has taken a disliking towards me, making snide remarks, turning up for unarranged and unannounced, and unofficial visits and not putting any of these alleged complaints on paper, so no paper trail.

Won’t go into too much detail but im determined to fight this on grounds of harassment and discrimination. I know after this extension the HA will just end up trying to evict me again, but I will prolong and appeal each step of the way. I have various health problems and the area I live is not where I’ve spent most of my life - there’s a sense of snobbery from the officer and they seem to be keen to get rid. Local council now involved but i want to make a full, official complaint against the housing officer because of thr stress, distress and upset caused due to the invailid eviction - in fact, if I had not gone to the council and left before thr eviction date, nobody would have known I was illegally evicted - so it seems like this was yet another form of intimidation to get rid of me. Surely more than one person at a HA checks eviction notices to make sure they’re valid before being issued?

John-K_3

What are you alleging the discrimination is based on? Discrimination is, of course, allowed in a great many cases. People can discriminate based on behaviour, for example.

What have you been doing, and what has been alleged?

LindaT66

What have I been doing? Living in my home as a normal tenant, tending to my garden, day to day life. Based on disability, and where I come from (different area to where I now live, same city).

Allegations range from noise to swearing - was told I am not allowed to dry washing in my garden, was told not to watch TV after 8pm at night. Apparently visitors causing nuisance - funny that the only visitors I!!!8217;ve had is one friend twice and my sons for a few hours at a time, usually we go on a walk and aren!!!8217;t in my home. The allegations aren!!!8217;t true, and I know it. Nothing that I have done can be classed as me casuing ASB, I!!!8217;m confident in this.

John-K_3

What has been said to suggest discrimination based on disability?

Do the rules allow you to to dry washing in your garden?

Have you any idea why they may have taken against you?

Pixie5740

Keep a log of all the unnanounced visits and raise a complaint with the HA.

sheramber

Are you in a flat?
Is your tv loud ?

Are there restrictions against drying your washing in the garden in your tenancy agreement?

Do your visitors make a noise when they arrive or when going away? We had neighbours whose visitors would Have conversations in loud voices and shout goodbye as they walked down the street.
Do you have disagreements with your neighbours?
Do you swear? Some people swear routinely in conversation which may offend others.

The housing officer cannot evict you. Only a court can order an eviction The court will review all the information before making an order,

Cakeguts

The problem I have is that I can't visualise what kind of HA property would be a single person household and yet have a private garden. The only properties that I know of that would fit this criteria are adapted for physically disabled people who wouldn't be able to spend time doing a garden because of the level of disability and they certainly wouldn't be able to go for a walk. Those adapted properties didn't have gardens that were suitable for drying washing. So I just can't understand what sort of single occupancy HA property would have a private garden that wasn't adapted for a serious physical disability.

Is the use of the garden part of the tenancy agreement or is it just supposed to be somewhere for you to sit outside and is actually part of the communal gardens?

Red-Squirrel_2

Cakeguts wrote: »

The problem I have is that I can't visualise what kind of HA property would be a single person household and yet have a private garden.

Ground floor flats in low rise developments? Fair few of those around here. In some the downstairs tenant gets the back garden and the upstairs tenant the front, or vice versa.

Cakeguts

Red-Squirrel wrote: »

Ground floor flats in low rise developments? Fair few of those around here. In some the downstairs tenant gets the back garden and the upstairs tenant the front, or vice versa.

Housing association? I can think of some council ones like that but they are mostly two beds not single occupancy units. It is the single occupancy as well that I find confusing. All the housing association/council flats that I can think of that are only 1 bed are reasonably modern and are in blocks.

There are some that are sheltered housing for the over 60s that are like studio flats where the ground floor ones have access to the communal gardens and a small raised border for people to put plants into as well as a small patio but they don't have gardens as such where you could dry washing or spend a lot of time putting plants in because the areas are part of the communal gardens.

elsien

The last one of these I saw was the S8 along with accompanying letter detailing the dates and the antisocial behaviour in question. It also said that action would only be taken if behaviour didn't improve and that the notice was valid for 12 months.

Is this the type of notice that you had? Because it was very clear about the allegations, including verbatim quotes of offensive language.
And it's not an eviction, valid or otherwise, it's a notice that court action to evict can be taken if neccessary.

Red-Squirrel_2

Cakeguts wrote: »

Housing association? I can think of some council ones like that but they are mostly two beds not single occupancy units. It is the single occupancy as well that I find confusing. All the housing association/council flats that I can think of that are only 1 bed are reasonably modern and are in blocks.

A lot of the previously council owned ones have been passed to HAs now. My council doesn't actually own any housing stock, which is a shame.

Yes, 1 bed too. I used to go out with a bloke who lived in one years ago!