Trapped

Demitria

Good afternoon,

I was hoping that someone could help shed some light on my situation please. It is a very difficult one.
I am a shared owner with a housing association. The mortgage is now paid for so technically I am now just required to pay rent but still classed as a shared owner. 

 I have endured 11 years of problems from the same neighbour who lives in the same street who is just a housing tenant. The street has houses which are shared ownership and the others are full housing association tenants.

These problems have included abuse, threats, intimidation, antisocial behaviour stemming from her home and a few other neighbours who join in and even, assaults on me throughout the years. There have been police involvement over the years and several other neighbours who were only housing association tenants have had to move because of this one neighbour and the problems she causes.

It is the same housing association for all the houses.

Whenever I have called police and housing with genuine problems, even a crime, I then find out that the other neighbour makes counter allegations. Years of tit for tat. There have been periods in time where they have left me alone but that is only because they have been too busy causing other problems with other neighbours. 

As is stands now the other neighbours living here are either involved with them or won't say boo to a goose. So I seem to be the only person willing to stand up for myself and my children.

I am a single mum, disabled and my children have their own issues too. This has caused me years of stress and mental health issues and my older children as well as my younger children have suffered so much too.

I love my home but I have got to the stage where I am willing to leave but the housing association will not consider helping me because of the my shared ownership situation.

I have to sell (if it sells? ) but the the local council won't rehome me because they see me as making  myself homeless deliberately.
Plus I have to take my disability into account. It is very hard. 

The other neighbours who have left could do easily because they were just tenants and did exchanges.

I do not know what to do or where to turn. 

Even with reporting the incidents, nothing much ever gets done. The most that has happened is they may get told to be on their good behaviour for a period of time. Which they do just about but before long things start happening again.

The police say such and au h is a housing matter and the housing say vice versa. 

Without going into too much detail, this time round this neighbour has been causing issues to get at me through the children. Aiming it at my child. There is a police matter going on again at the moment where I and my older child made a statement about abuse towards my younger child, and extreme threatening behaviour from them to me which I had evidence of, but the police have informed me that they have made a counter allegation which again is lies but by law, they have to follow that up.

Going round in circles. I feel trapped.

I have reached out to community law but they say it isn't a matter they deal with.
A decade of hell. 
I have tried to sell in the past but that was when I was married and as a family we had a better chance to start again somewhere else. But the house didn't sell. 

Has anyone got any advise please. 
Kind regards, 
Demi

steve866

Have you checked affordability to sell and buy somewhere else? The market is different now and it may sell and even have gone up in value since you last tried.

GDB2222

You really want advice that works? Wear a body camera. Collect irrefutable evidence. 

You can get one here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Body-Worn-Camera/s?k=Body+Worn+Camera

Be aware that this will be yet another issue for your neighbour to confront you about. But, it's perfectly legal to wear one of these in the street.