Recieved a phone today from local housing association office, our area changes its allocation procedure that much it is hard to keep up. Basically the area office/shop has a small waiting list of 5 people that is made up from people from that get to top of main waiting list, once on shop list it should be no more than 3 months until you are housed. You pick areas etc when join main list, the idea is so people that are at the bottom of the list don't get their hopes up when bidding for a property to then come in number 300. So hears the decision we have hit hard times so the cheaper rent will be all good but I don't think we can actually afford to move.
We are in private rent at the moment, white goods/cooker, carperts, ds bed/mattress and the bedrooms have built in wardrobes. Dd's have bunk beds so ds could share for a while but not a long term solution. The rent and council tax saving is about £250 per month which I would save towards the things I need. Overtime is not really an option as we then loose out on housing benefit and end up worse off. So in my position would you take the HA house? I know I probably won't get another chance but very worried about not having the things my dc will need.
Not that it is relevant but have been where we are for 10 years so it is quite secure.
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IHaveAToiletBrush · 26/09/2016 16:32
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