NI Homeless Help

I had originally posted this under Rent/Housing Help but was advised by another helpful user to perhaps post it in the benefits section to see if anyone has any suggestions on some sort of help.


I live in Northern Ireland, I have been awarded 190 points by the NIHE (Northern Ireland Housing Executive), but have been told the areas that would be "safe" for me to live in have little to know turn over and I'd be looking at 90 weeks + before anything could become available. I have already been on the list for over a year.

I have Complex PTSD which means I cannot live in a hostel, shared accommodation, flats/apartments. I am currently sleeping on my cousin's sofa, but he has been diagnosed as a hoarder. His hoarding has had a massive impact on my mental health as my alcoholic mother was the same and one of the triggers to my PTSD is clutter and filth. No one like sliving like that in the best of times, but when you've PTSD it makes it a hell of a lot worse.

The NIHE have discussed a single let property, but again I have stressed to them (and provided medical evidence of) not being able to live in a flat or apartment.

Due to my PTSD, I am not working and have been surviving on my enhanced PIP. I have no one that can help me financially.

Looking at the private rented accommodation where I am, I would have to be paying £450 in rent a month, which I could pay, but because they ask for £450 deposit + £450 rent in advance I cannot afford it.

I have been left to it by the NIHE and I've already self-harmed in the past ten minutes of receiving this news. Being homeless I have nothing I can sell to make the £1000 unless I sold my own body, but I'm too ugly for that and don't have the confidence to even go there.

At this point I feel I'd be better off dead, I've tried Housing Rights who have told me to try asking to be put on management transfer list by the Manager at the NIHE, and to see about more points, but I've been awarded the right amount of points from where I am sitting.

Other than suicide I see no other way out, any loans I could get would come with a high-interest rate of 49.9% APR because my credit history is shoddy due to not working.

I don't know what else to do and really hope, someone, somewhere can offer me advice. I'm just asking for a place to live and sleep. I'm not one of those people that makes a lot of fuss, I just want somewhere quiet and clean on my own.

I literally have no one, I even set up a Go Fund me and it got absolutely no-where so I am fresh out of ideas, suggestions and I have looked at several charities but I'm either too old, not "disabled enough" or just don't qualify in any other way.