To be annoyed at council waiting times

Christ What some people just dont have the money to pay for private electricians.

A few years ago £20 was all i had to feed us that week so it would not have been spent on anything else.

Ypu really are showing how ignorant you are. GF c9mes to mind

Yeah some social housing properties are not much cheaper where I live than private let. (3 bed social housing around £450 a month, private £550.) However, the tenancies are much more secure, and the repairs are usually better.

I am not attacking social housing tenants - no way - but let's not kid ourselves that people in social housing are no more fortunate than people in private let housing. Come on, be serious.

It's annoying for the light not to be working. However, most services provided by the council have a wait. Not just housing stuff.

3 weeks for a non emergency problem is manageable although not ideal. I don't think you should give it any more thought.

Oswin that is really terrible, I am really sorry you are having to live with that. I would really advise you contact your MP as often they really do have some weight, even more so in the current climate re housing maintenance

I seem to keep posting this, but my HA rent was actually higher than the market rate and the maintenance team was incredibly unorganised, though not as bad as Oswin's. I now live in a nice private let.

And people in council houses and HA are allowed to have a moan, but you know, perspective. No water/ heating- unacceptable. No light in one room for 3 weeks, annoying, but tolerable.

What to do what if the council don't allow you to do these jobs yourself. There's loads of shit I would fix myself but am not allowed. If they make these silly rules then they should fix them ASAP.

Once again I pay the same as private renters in my area. Well actually more.
I could get a private flat like mine for around 75 less.

Beebee the last contractors were awful the stories I've heard about them were shocking. Removing peoples doors and then not fixing it back on till next day. Leaving people without electricity and gas for week's.

I heard they are in trouble with the council.
My moms gonna contact our mp for me soon. I can't do it. I can't cope with any of it. The people talk to you like shit on their shoe it's horrible.

My council house costs more to rent than most of the similarly sized properties in my area.

Again not every one is renting at a redused fucking rate.

WhatToDo you haven't been a member of Kensington Council in the past have you?

Nope; never lived or worked in London

What the fuck? We're not allowed to complain about the problems in our rented flat because we're in social housing? Why?

You're getting council houses at a reduced rate. The least you can do is pay for someone to change your lightbulb. Big repairs, of course you shouldn't have to wait so long and they should be paid for.

But not a fucking lightbulb.

She didn't want a reaction, she wanted a moan on MN. Then the twats descended on her thread.

Have to say the comments by @what are out of order. As I said, some people who rent social housing do actually work! (Not that there is anything bad about people who rent socially and don't...'

@oswin, I am sorry to hear of your troubles. And sorry you have suffered mental health issues. Just 2 years with no hot water seemed extreme to me.

Yes two years. Also a leak from upstairs into my bathroom has ruined my bathroom and it's crumbling. They keep missing appointments and when I said I can get my brother to do it was told I would be in breach of my tenancy.

Have to move back in in a few weeks whether it's sorted or not and it's making me feel sick already.
They are planning to knock it down in the next two years thank God.

Wooo, coddiwomple I think you are psychic as that's exactly what happened .

DancingFairy You wanted a reaction and you got it, hope it makes your heart light up so you don't need the bathroom one fixing.

I do, however, think those who are in council places yet moan about it are

What the fuck? We're not allowed to complain about the problems in our rented flat because we're in social housing? Why?

Ah you mean council tenants should not be allowed to have a moan on MN?

Only private tenants and homeowners allowed to post?

Everybody moans about something What and for all I think the OP was coming across as a sulky child she is not a leech!!!

Well it's not free, but... It is just a light.

I'm disabled and occ therapy have requested that I need a bathroom conversion to a wet room because I can't use my bath. I also need a stairlift, raised toilet and other adaptations, widened doors for wheelchair etc.

I'll be expected to wait 6 months to 18 months before I can have a bathroom I can wash in, rather than using wet wipes. I can't get downstairs so I live in my bedroom. I just think oh well, that's the way it is and get on with it.

So yes, I think it is entitled when there are disabled people waiting for things to let them be able to carry out basic needs, people who have no hot water or maybee no water at all, no heating in the winter etc.

It's a light.

Look at that comment for what. This is the shit we have to put up with.

Look at the first page.
FFS.

To be fair OP I think Cheshire was trying to sympathise

WhatToDo you haven't been a member of Kensington Council in the past have you?

Social housing is charged at affordable levels.

the difference between the affordable levels and market rent is the subsidy.

Private housing is disproportionately inflated in certain areas

compared to what? Market rate is market rate. Private rent is certainly much higher than wages and the housing market is out of whack. but that doesn't mean private rents are inflated.

That doesn't mean social housing is subsidised. It means private housing rents are too high.

both are true. One is definitely subsidised. rents are too high for wages, not the market price.

If you want to talk about subsidies - look at landlords getting massive amounts of housing benefit to pay their extortionate rents.

yup. housing benefit inflates rents and ends in the hands of private landlords.

Sorry, I meant to say 'REALLY????' at Oswin saying she has had no HOT WATER for 2 years.... (not no heating.)

It's not vile, it's fact. I don't think people in council houses (or on benefits, for that matter) are leeches.

I do, however, think those who are in council places yet moan about it are.

Lost I am contacting a solicitor that deals with the council.
For a year I had someone's dirty water leaking into my flat. Onto the hot water control and blew it up.
They have sent at least ten gas engineers out. It's a non gas block.
They have missed at least 15 appointments.
My council changed contracters last month so I'm hoping these ones will be different. Not getting my hopes up seeing as they keep sending me cards telling me I must let them in to do a gas safety check.
No one listens. No one cares. I've had to stay with my parents I'm disabled and it drove me to near suicide.

Some very over sensitive people on here. I know some people can be rude towards social housing folk and it's so unnecessary as some people do actually pay their rent themselves (or some of it anyway.) And there is nothing wrong with renting social housing.

But this is not happening on here. People are NOT being horrid about people in social housing. The OP is being ridiculous and is coming across as bratty and entitled - and so are a few others on this thread. (and the irony of the nasty comments they are making is breathtaking!)

As for the comment by @oswin, saying she is a social housing tenant and has had no heating for 2 years. Really????????

And even if the OP cannot touch the light herself (which I also find hard to believe!) she can still improvise FFS. As some people have said, get some bloody push lights!