Selling house (divorce) Can I apply for social housing?

itsthelittlethings

housebuyer143 said:

itsthelittlethings said:

Unless you’re in priority need (and this is dire need), the wait for social housing can be very long, think years. But my perspective is that if you don’t have any realistic hope of buying a house, you might as well get in the waiting list because before you know it, those years will have gone by and you’ll be at the top of your list. Keep logging in to your account and keep your contact details up to date. But in the short term, unless you want to go the TA route, which I personally wouldn’t really, especially with children, if I could avoid it, as the poster above says, you might be better looking for private rental paid for with benefits. In the short term it might be worth asking, I’ve known people get social housing in a relatively short space of time by getting lucky but I think it’s rare.

It's not really a list as in you make your way to the top as it reduces.. Those with higher need will go ahead of you and thus you might never move up the list regardless of the time you wait. 
Get on it, but unless they are higher need than those above them they won't be likely to be top of those bidding as their band will be lower.

I know how it works, at least round here. I knew someone in a band D (the lowest band), get a studio flat after being registered for about 3 years. People always say, oh you’ll never get anything but at least round here it’s bid based so you can get something less popular like a studio flat if other people don’t bid. What I
meant to say is, people always say you’ll never get anything because so many people want social housing but that’s not what I’ve observed when people actually register.