Housing Benefit

Zara33

weymuffred wrote: »

No need for you to so rude.
Read my posts properly and it becomes obvious how we were shafted, and how the council housing works down here.
Where have I said "The council cannot give you something that they do not have."

Oh mother of pearl :eek: you still don't get it do you!
You have not been shafted.
The bold part :rolleyes: i said that.

shellsuit

Weymuffred, the same thing happened to me with the council 11 years ago.

I was living with my father in a 2 bed flat, was pregnant so my OH moved in with us.

Went to the council to see if I could get something and they offered me a house on one of the worst estates in this area. (The nickname for it was 'beruit')

I would rather have lived cramped and waited, but they assured me that if I took the property, I would still be in the same place on the housing list with all my points, so I took it.

Coupld of weeks after I moved in, I applied for a house, to be told that I was no longer on the waiting list!

I was fuming, so after 6 months, I went private and have been in the same private house for over 9 years now. I couldn't have stayed in that other house, I had junkies knocking at my door at 4 am in the morning asking for sugar or foil (to cook a chicken, yeah right!), horrid people letting their dogs fight for the amusement of others and poor kids playing in the street around the junkies who would come out of various houses off their faces....there was NO way I was bringing up my child living there, I nearly had a breakdown at 20 years of age!

Why the council had to lie, I don't know, so I know exactly where you are coming from.

tosca5

3 girls will fit into a bedroom easily, bunk beds and a single. A friend of mine had 4 boys in one room for 3 years that was the way.
There is a lot more people in more need of a 4 bedroomed house than you.
If you can't find a 3 bedroomed to private rent then living in a caravan/B&B will move you up the council list till a the first 3 bedroomed becomes available.

Scarlett1

There would be no problem putting 3 children in 1 room, you could even put a double bed and a single one in there and have wardrobes going along 1 wall, I think the generous benefit systems seems to have spoilt people cause if they had to pay rent out of their own money they wouldnt be too choosy in demanding a bigger house.

tosca5

Scarlett1 wrote: »

I think the generous benefit systems seems to have spoilt people cause if they had to pay rent out of their own money they wouldnt be too choosy in demanding a bigger house.

Well said and 100% correct.

krisskross

I am somewhat surprised that as you had sold a property then moved to a totally new area that you were not considered intentionally homeless and thus not the LAs reponsibility to house.

Why on earth did you do this? Did you not find a home for your family before making the move to Weymouth?

Kimberley

Zara33 wrote: »

Funnily enough quiet easily :rolleyes: when i was younger we only lived in a two bed house and strangely enough three of us girls shared a room...so why should your family be any different.

It's true, when my mum first moved into her pre war 3 bedroom house (she is still there) with 4 children (me being one) we found out that the family before that had 8 children, that meant there were 10 people living in that house, but they managed, they didn't even have things like a washing machine or TV, but they managed. This was years ago, my mum has been in her house more then 40 years and the 12 member family in it before her.

Some people moan about not having room, but during war times and before that times were even harder and I agree with the person who said that if people had to pay rent themselves they wouldn't even think about upgrading.

As I was growing up our next door neighbours had a house fire, they had 5 children and we let them stay with us the first few nights until they sorted elsewhere. So we had 11 people in a 3 bedroom house.

You see when it's dire and times are hard we have to cope and whether or not you don't have room, we make do somehow even if it means a bed/mattress on the floor.

Anthillmob

with all due respect fred you need to wait your turn on the housing list. i can understand your frustration, believe me im frustrated with mine, but we make do with what we have got.

one of my cousins wifes used to sleep in a drawer when she was a baby because of lack of space in the family household!

my mum was one of 7 children who lived with mum and dad in a 3 bed house and the box room in that house was tiny.

my mums old neighbours had five kids. the council only moved themout of their 2 bed last yeat. the parents had to sleep in the living room on camp bed.

in our situation me and mr mob now have our bed in the living room. yes its cramped and not ideal but needs must.

Kimberley

Anthillmob wrote: »

in our situation me and mr mob now have our bed in the living room. yes its cramped and not ideal but needs must.

Yes that is how you make do, when I lost my house a few years ago I was staying with my sister, she has 1 child and a 2 bedroom dolls house yes it was very tiny, so that was 6 people living in a 2 bedroom house.

pipkin71

I don't like the area we live in, and given the choice I would move today.

Reading some of the posts on this thread though makes me think again of how lucky my own family are to live in a house that is not overcrowded.

I genuinely mean that too. When we first got this place, I was so thankful for it, but after a while you tend to see what's wrong with stuff rather than what's right.

As we are adequately housed, we won't be moved by the council - at least until I can no longer manage the stairs - but so many have to go through much worse. I couldn't imagine the three of us living in a 1 bedroomed flat.

Pipkin xxxx