Housing for Single Mothers

[jasleenasembi]

Hi!

I am an second year architecture student, who is currently watching my newly single mother go through a housing scare.

the project I am working on is trying to create a new form of housing to accommodate to single mothers.

As women, we are faced with so many hardships, if anyone has any stories, thoughts, ideas, it would be so helpful to my project, and to my Mom.

Thank you girls!

Umm make affordable housing actually affordable... Do something to help single working parents get on the property ladder... even shared ownership is generally not achievable. Continue to help parents with housing costs all through their child’s university career.... help if they do an apprenticeship ... oh, and build more housing!!!

How would that work?

Are the women expected to remain single?

What is it about single mothers that makes their housing needs so different to single fathers?

What happens when the kids get to 18/leave home?

I work in supported housing and all of my service users are single mothers. Not one of them have expressed wanting a special accommodation built specifically for them because they’re single.

What they do want is for landlords to not discriminate them because they’re in receipt of benefits. For whoever is behind Universal Credit to acknowledge that waiting five weeks for a payment means being a month behind in rent.

Maybe you can build better ‘emergency accommodations’ for the council, because all we have in this county are B&Bs. Young, new and vulnerable mothers being accommodated in a B&B with substance users in the next room. Or a family of eight in the room upstairs. Someone with severe mental health issues down the corridor. This isn’t acceptable in 2018.

Families living in a high rise block of flats with horrible reputations whilst the council build a huge multimillion building - paid by over the next 40 years with tax payers’ money.

Can you tell I resent the current housing situation?