Succeeding a tenancy

HampshireH

Shelter states

You can't assign a joint council tenancy to someone who could inherit your tenancy.

Seems it could only be done for single tenancies with succession rights

Red-Squirrel_2

74ace wrote: »

Yes it's interesting. Had the 19yr old succeeded the tenancy so if parent had died she would have to leave after the 6 months as it would be too big for her. The assignment however does not mention under occupying. If you can find out it does let me know please! I couldn't find it anywhere in housing law.

You'd have to find the rules for each specific council/HA I imagine, but I'd be very very surprised if the rules for under occupying an assigned tenancy rather than an inherited one were any different. Its probably just not mentioned in the Shelter guide.

John_G_Jones

Carlwelsh1991 wrote: »

I understand what your saying but it's not just as easy as that, while we are both working it's not so easy to just save and buy and stuff private renting is alot more expensive and the budgets wouldn't stretch we have other factors at play (debt and such) were trying to live within our means atm but we're struggling so being on the lift wouldn't hurt why we escorting our finances out, I don't like the idea of renting at all and would prefer to buy but it's just not on the cards

This really rings alarm bells.

You are both living with parents, generally the cheapest way to live, but are still struggling?

How is this possible if you are working, where is all the money going, and how will you both survive if you have to support yourselves?

It sounds like it’d be worth posting a statement of affairs so that people can help to work out what changes you need to make.