Lifetime Social Housing Tenancies

My entire estate is ex council. There are probably 80 houses and the only only ones which are council now is 2

All of this. I see a lot of threads on here about HA properties being ‘unfairly’ allocated or whatever but it all boils down to the fact affordable rent HA properties are so few and far between. This shouldn’t be the case.

Yes looking on Rightmove for my town and so so many of the private rentals are ex council houses! But double the price to rent.

She should probably not be considering reproducing with a man who can't financially support their household for 12 months, that sounds like an absolutely terrible idea. She is not in her present situation because a minority of social housing tenants are higher earners and should be evicted - she's in her present situation because buying is unreasonably expensive (why is there no political will to address 5%+ yearly interest rates on loans secured against one of the surest assets? The whole system needs an overhaul and the government probably needs to step in and start providing common sense mortgages) and because social housing stock has been chipped away at until it's not available to all but those in the most dire situations. There are quite a few fixes to this before we start evicting social housing tenants that earn more than some as yet undefined amount.

My husband isn't rich, and wanting to stay at home and raise your own children isn't golddigging 😂

I agree . But private renters can't always just go and private rent again. I private rented for years. Landlord wanted hiuse back. couldn't find a private rent. Had to be evicted. Went into temporary accommodation . Found a private rent. Got evicted a year ish later back onto temporary accommodation for 6 years. Then i got social housing. It would have been more than 6 years but my situation change which meant i became a heigher prority.

Building more and more social housing absolutely should be a thing.

Our town had two HAs involved in some decent sized building projects over the last few years (house building on old massive factory and mine sites). The effect on the rental market has been excellent!

Less tenants looking, because of the movement offered by all the people getting the new build social housing, has meant that the really shitty landlords have been forced out and the ones who charge ridiculous rents have had to rein themselves in. LL's like myself that charge an average rent for decent properties weren't impacted (I'm in the middle of selling my childhood home to a social housing provider).

Secure housing is good for people and it's good for communities. We need more of it, not less.

We are thank you.

A decade on and we are in secure housing, my older kids are doing well and contributing to society because we finally had a secure home and put down roots here and I'm a carer for my disabled daughter but managing to do a degree so I can also start contributing again as well.

I hope things are better for you now.

Um what the hell else is she supposed to do if she wants kids though? They have to live somewhere.
She cant just choose to live in a council house when the waiting list is like five years even for someone in the highest band Ie a homeless shelter or ten years for a lower band.
And private renting is usually more expensive than a mortgage plus you can get evicted any time.

And yeah I live outside London too it's the same pretty much everywhere.

Also lol at the idea it's easy to just choose to date a rich man 😂 as if there is tons of them walking around waiting for any gold diggers to snap them up

There should have been life long covenant on any right to buy properties to say only sell to people to actually live in them and not to landlords. That s the life long bit that is needed.

Yes - but at least the level of state subsidiary given to some families would be transparent.

The answer is to build many more council houses and flats.
Then things like downsizing would be far easier for older people to swap houses and there would be enough social housing for those who need it.
Selling off council houses under rtb to end up in hands of private landlords who then private rent them out and get £££ in housing benefit is what has screwed everyone apart from those private landlords .

Op can choose to go on social housing list same as her neighbour. But clearly it s only an option for the few in many locations because there are just not enough. That is the issue.

In any mixed block the council or HA flats or houses are lower level of fit out which is fine coz cheaper rent and it makes genuine choice if only there were enough of them ...

Im so sorry. It must have been awful. I hope things are better for you . That your safe and secure . 💐

Its already a thing? I had a lifetime tenancy but got enough together for a mortgage and moved out and purchased my own home.

They will always have to pay rent. The house will never be theirs. I feel in a much better position now paying a mortgage. Even though the interest rates have increased.

They will not be in social housing. The waiting list is years. It would be a lot harder to get one than to find another private rent or they will just live in a homeless shelter.

I'm one of the privileged few.

All I had to do was be in an abusive relationship, get pregnant and beaten up, move hundreds of miles away with my kids into a refuge for 10 months and BOOM, council house.

Where I live they do
they have succession where the person can be a family member and be passed on the tenancy providing they have lived there to 12 months

and where you add a person to a tenancy providing you didn’t succeed the tennancy in the first place

my nephew who lives with his nan has been added to her tenancy
when she passes away he will get the tenancy of a beautiful 2/3 bed Victorian Terrace for the sum of 490 a month

Privileged few? Who are these privileged few, exactly?

One big downside of people moving around all the time is it really damages social cohesion. A lot of areas barely have a "local community" anymore, just an everchanging flux of people who don't know each other. Security for social housing tenants is a good way to counter that.

Perhaps there are tweaks to be made, e.g. linking rent more strongly to income.

But then my rent would be around 2500. Paid my UC people would hate that to.

I'm in private rental in my 40s and I feel powerless because if you have to private rent you are screwed in this system. I'm constantly having to deal with a landlord that doesn't even reply to emails let alone act on repairs. The system is wrong for housing, but I don't really think people should be forced into private rental where you are not secure.

I think council rents should be nearer to the market rents. Then council tax could be lower for all.

Different Councils, have different criteria. Look up your own Council online.

But the private renters you feel for. Could lose their home . If and landlord wants the house back. They may not be able to get another private rent. They will then be in social housing. Then you will feel they have it easy its not fair. ?