Homeless /eviction

[Shithole101]

Watching a programme about family's being in temporary accommodation. Its awful its getting worse 😞

We are in temporary. Have been here 4 months now. It’s hard because everything is still packed up and we are living out of boxes. We don’t have a cooker or a stove cos we can’t afford one.

We are struggling to find anywhere to go. It’s really hard but we are working with the council and they are trying to help where they can

If your in emgency/intrim accommodation swld contained . they should be supplying a cooker .

The programme only touched on the situation they really should have showed the condition of some of theses temporary accommodation

There's often a shared cooker among many families at best, and it's often pretty inadequate for the number of people using it.

But when the council provides a house, they literally provide the house. Nothing with it. I remember the lovely lady who came in to work and was all but skipping she was so proud of her one bedroom flat which was the first property she'd ever had...
In the course of the conversation we discovered that she had the property, but nothing at all in it. So she was sleeping on the floor ("don't worry, I have a blanket") no chairs ("The blanket also makes a nice cushion to sit on"), no carpets ("but I have a roof") and although there was a cooker she had no pans, or cooking equipment ("I'm used to cold food").
Thankfully we have a couple of local charities that were able to help with some of that, but I think when the council provides a property they should provide a bed and chair per person, a kitchen table and a basics cooking equipment (couple of pans, baking tray, casserole dish maybe, plate, bowl, cup, cutlery, kettle and toaster).

I have been through the homeless system twice with my family. Hostels, b&b, shared accommodation are different. That's why I mentioned self contained. If your in self contained emergency/interim accommodation the council must supply essentials . At the very least that's a fridge, cooker , beds.

Once you go into longer term temporary accommodation then there's not normally furniture as all . That's when you have to get all your own furniture.

On the programme I watched a woman was taking alot of her larger type furniture to a tip . And fid the stuff she was keeping she was paying alot of money for storage . But the council actually have a duty to store her stuff. There is a fee/charge but its much less than a storage facility. The council don't volunteer that information. You have to look for it its on the shelter website and in my case on my council website.

Once I was put in long term temporary I took my stuff out of storage

Where is the other parent’s responsibility for these homeless children? Yet again, it seems to be women in precarious situations.

I felt especially sorry for Katie, who’d lived with her children in the same house for 13 years, never missed a rent payment, but the house was being sold.

With the other parent I think it can be complicated if parents are still together I think they go through the situation together so they end up in temporary as a family anyway. If they are separated and the mum is the resident parent then she just has to go through it. There could loads of reasons why its not suitable for children to live with the other parent.

There's many familys like Katie sadly. No rent arrears good tenant. Many people think its the fault of the tenant but its often not. It's happening more and more . And councils are spends loads of money on temporary/emergency accommodation. They need to look for a better way