Helping a Desperate Young Woman

Get her stuff out of storage or the cost will mount up and the kids have no beds

And just imagine being so anti migrants that you'd rather be homeless than share a hotel with them. They don't put them with resident homeless people anyway.

It has to.go to court before the baliffs come and that will cost the landlord about £2k. He might give her longer. Nothing will happen on Sunday if that's the last day of the notice.

I've been through this with 3 children too. As everyone else has said, she needs to stay put, the kids can stay with Grandma but like another pp said, I'd keep quiet about that.
I was first put into a hostel for over 6 months, then into temporary accommodation which was a flat and far far better than the hostel. In total it probably took about 2 years for me to be housed.

And yes, I will say it - absolutely no need for your racism. Those seeking asylum are not illegal immigrants. Try getting off the Mail online and educating yourself on these issues.

Nicely done. Faux concern about a possibly real situation to get the reform frothers going.
Excellent work

People born and who grew up in the UK don't get the same "privileges" because the government assumes they have a default safety net like having family, friends, relatives, savings, language, education etc.

Exactly.

Female asylum seekers get housed with the same bunch of "illegal single males" that you deem unacceptable for this young woman. So why are you bringing migrants into this when the situation is obviously not comparable?

In all honesty, this woman and her mum made a lot of bad choices that have led up to this situation. You being outraged doesn't help much and the state isn't there to bail out people who knowingly made unwise life decisions (eg having multiple children with a man they are not married to). You can argue that asylum seekers turn up and get housed because they never had an alternate option. People born and who grew up in the UK don't get the same "privileges" because the government assumes they have a default safety net like having family, friends, relatives, savings, language, education etc.

Is she employed OP?

She will get temporary accommodation I'd she stays put though. She needs to follow the advice she's been given by the council.

She might be better trying to move to an area with lower rents so that the required guarantor income is lower.

For now though sadly she does need to refuse to leave and go through eviction process to be made homeless.

How the council will house her won't be nice though, it will be emergency accommodation like a b&b and no guarantee near kids schools etc. Better to move in with grandma and save money to offer a landlord 6m rent up front etc.

If I were your friend I'd move in with my mother and continue to try and rent privately rather than rely on the local authority. As you say she may end being housed in a dinghy hotel or HMO, and who would like that for their children? She could also apply for a council house or. housing association rental. Being a single mother with 3 children she should end up high on the waiting list. But in the short term I'd definitely move in with family.

Where have you been getting your information from ? the lady about to be evicted or her mother / your friend.

Why would she be handing back her keys this weekend - is that when her notice period ends

has the landlord actually started eviction proceedings ?

Has she received a Bailiff's letter stating when they are arriving ?

Why has all her furniture gone in to storage already ?

The Local Authority are right, she has to be evicted by the Bailiff
then she goes to their offices
and gets put into temp accommodation

Why are the children upset - what on earth has she been telling them ?!

The children should be protected by the mother until the last minute, and even then they can go and visit Granny for the morning
they cannot stay with Granny as you will then find the council has no legal duty to house the mother, so she must turn up with the children to the accommodation offered.

She needs to keep the keys and wait for the court order. The LA won't make her wait until the balifs actually come to the house, they will accommodate them when the court order for balifs is served. Hotels for families are a last resort, it does happen but not often, they're more likely to be put in temporary homeless accommodation. It could take a good few months for the court order which does give more time for another rental to be found. It's a shit process but that is the process unfortunately.

op got the info from Facebook which is obviously the fountain of all knowledge lol

As long as she keeps paying her rent on time and keeps the property in good order she will not get a CCJ or lose her deposit.

She needs to stay where she is for now.

"And yes, I will say it - Illegal Migrants are housed as soon as they arrive in this Country, given all the help and assistance they require - even giving them money and driving lessons, - hotels in Swindon full of them"

Shame on you for spreading these lies. Asylum seekers are not illegal. They are seeking asylum. They are not "housed" (with the implication that they are given permanent housing). They are placed in temporary accommodation. Those in hotels get £8.86 a week. They do not get given driving lessons: where did you get that bit of nonsense? Asylum seekers are not responsible for your friend's problems.

When this has happened at the school I work at, the family worker has been able to contact LA housing. Is there anyone at the children’s school who could help - email the admin account to check. Do any of the children have special needs, if so this will add more weight to the support they should receive.

I also wouldn't start comparing your friend to asylum seekers. Yes she is in a very stressful situation but she has a home which she currently has the legal right to occupy. That's a lot better position to be in than being put up in a hotel. Hotel accommodation is no home for a child. Councils use them as a last resort. Hopefully once she does have to seek assistance from the council she and her children will be put into temporary accommodation rather than a hotel. Living in Temporary Accommodation is often very difficult but it's better than a hotel, which is really not a suitable home for months or years on end.

This.

And I’ll also add to this that the rental market now (at least where we are) is such that even if you have your deposit etc ready to go for a new rental, you still have to jump through hoops that not many people can meet. Lots where we are now require a guarantor who is a home owner AND also earns above a certain salary- even if you had the money to offer to pay 6 months upfront rent you’d still be turned away if you couldn’t provide that guarantor.

Well yes of course. The idea that all men are pedophiles is ridiculous. But it isn't very nice having an influx of unknown blokes into your neighborhood trust me, as cited in my original comment.

I’m so sorry. No advise to offer but she (and her mother and children) will be in my
prayers tonight.

Do you know how many people rely on the private rental market because it’s absolutely impossible for them to buy their own property? For many people, it wouldn’t matter if they had 7 years or 700 years, they won’t EVER be in a position to buy their own home.

Even if ‘setting in place a Plan B’ might involve having some money saved in order to be able to quickly rent another property, that’s not the answer to housing instability that continues year-on-year. And nor should it be. People on low incomes experience housing inequality on a massive scale and it, quite literally, ruins lives and keeps them trapped in a never-ending cycle of hardship.

Just to echo everyone else. She has to stay put. Bailiffs won't rock up at the weekend. The landlord should be expecting this anyway, and the process will take some time.
She HAS to stay put. As awful as it may be. If everything is in storage anyway. It makes life easier when the high court do come knocking. If she hands over those keys at the weekend she's on her own, indefinitely. She'll be lucky to get a room in a bedsit in the next county.
If she hands over those keys, she will be up the creek without a paddle. You can say it's awful, and id agree, but that's the system. She stays put and continues to pay rent. There will not be a CCJ if no money owed.
If she is going to eventually be home by the LA, a landlords reference is irrelevant.
I rent and I live in constant fear of this happening, so I have done lots of research should the worst happen.

wouldn't waste the facts on the op she just wants fb to tell her the narrative lol