Please Help My Sister Needs Housing!!

prestonlass

I really appreciate that I don't know your dad OR what he can be like, just trying to offer a different perspective. Perhaps he feels that he should be making things a little uncomfortable at his home, if only to give your sister and the baby's father some motivation to set up home together.
Whilst at such a young age she may not have noticed his attitude towards you she must surely have know his views before she decided to have a baby. Of course I do not know you or your circumstances but in general, young mothers having a baby without their own home often have quite a difficult time of it and I am sure that she must have seen that it hasn't all been plain sailing for you. It just baffles me why people would choose to go along a path that when they can see how difficult is for others. Surely she must have had some idea just how difficult it is to get council housing.
I know you asked for help and advice but there are homeless people with many children waiting considerable lengths of time just to get a permanent home. I just can't see how relying on the council will enable her to improve the situation any time soon and hope you are able to get some alternative advice from someone on here - good luck.

Bluebelle72

prestonlass wrote: »

I really appreciate that I don't know your dad OR what he can be like, just trying to offer a different perspective. Perhaps he feels that he should be making things a little uncomfortable at his home, if only to give your sister and the baby's father some motivation to set up home together.
Whilst at such a young age she may not have noticed his attitude towards you she must surely have know his views before she decided to have a baby. Of course I do not know you or your circumstances but in general, young mothers having a baby without their own home often have quite a difficult time of it and I am sure that she must have seen that it hasn't all been plain sailing for you. It just baffles me why people would choose to go along a path that when they can see how difficult is for others. Surely she must have had some idea just how difficult it is to get council housing.
I know you asked for help and advice but there are homeless people with many children waiting considerable lengths of time just to get a permanent home. I just can't see how relying on the council will enable her to improve the situation any time soon and hope you are able to get some alternative advice from someone on here - good luck.

Thank you again prestonlass for your opinion but your perspective has already been seen, my father made exactly the same mistake my sister and I made and had to live with his father when I was born up until I was 2 years old. I also realise the housing shortage and the homeless children waiting to be rehoused. Thank you again for your input. :rolleyes:

prestonlass

point taken and no offence intended toward you - hope they are able to get sorted and someone is able to come up with some more practical advice on here for you.

Bluebelle72

prestonlass wrote: »

point taken and no offence intended toward you - hope they are able to get sorted and someone is able to come up with some more practical advice on here for you.

None taken prestonlass

silvercar

By all means she and her boyfriend should go on the council's housing list.

The fact is, unless you are very, very lucky, the list is so long and houses come up rarely, that the housing that does come available is allocated to those in priority need.

To be classified as being in priority need, your sister needs to be homeless and a priority. Having a baby will make her a priority but at the moment she has a home to live in. Until and unless her parents evict her, she is unlikely to be given a council house.

If your parents did evict her, the council would allocate some emergency housing. This is likely to be a hostel, B&B or similar. After she has lived there for a couple of months she is likely to be allocated a more permeneant solution This again may not be ideal, it could be a private rental that the council hae rented for 3 years, so she could be moved again after that time.

There are other options available including private rentals (presumably with a housing benefit claim to pay the rent). In my area the council will give landlords a bond so that would be tenants don't have to find a deposit.

Bluebelle72

thanks silvercar and i spose there's always housing associations too.

Strapped

What is baby's father doing toward providing a roof over his baby's head?

Bluebelle72

Strapped wrote: »

What is baby's father doing toward providing a roof over his baby's head?

well they both are trying to work together they filled in the application forms together and he took them in. he works part time and studies part time, but i'm sure after the advice we get on here both he and my sister can start the ball rolling a bit faster.

mum2one

Bluebelle72 wrote: »

Thank you for your reply, I did assume that the baby being able to live with his father would be a priority need.

No Im afraid unless the couple are married, then the living with the father is not necessarily top of the tick list for the council.

I found that if your honest(like I was) you get nowhere if you are alair like my ex, you get a house.

Theres no justice Im afraid.
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Priority of council houseing, goes to those out of prison, those homeless, those who live with their parenst are not far up the list x

Phirefly

Bluebelle72 wrote: »

I asked the question on here as I assumed I would get simple advice not judgement on us.

You've not spent a great deal of time in the world of MSE House Buying, Renting, Selling & Prices have you?!