To be annoyed with being offerred another two bedroomed property?

[NettOlympicSuperstar]

I live in homeless accommodation, it's fine, not a B&B, a perfectly decent flat. I've been here just over a year.
Because of my disability, I am classed as needing a three bedroomed property, either ground floor, or with stair lift.
My flat is first floor.
I don't mind staying here whilst waiting for a three bedroomed place to come up, I don't even mind moving to a ground floor two bed, so long as they keep me at the top of the list for a three, but that they have now tried twice to push me into a horrid block full of damp is taking the piss no?

You should contact cab/ shelter.

Camels As far as I'm aware, the spare room clause for those with disabilities is staying. Equipment, Carer, etc.

Netto is quite a well known posters who I know has quite bad disabilities, a first floor flat with damp won't help her at all. The council should really be taking all of Nettos circumstances on board.

Well, thinking of my own situation, if you want the council to make adaptions to the house you need to be there for a certain amount of time afterwards, and since I have two children, six and four, and one of each sex, I qualify for a two bedroom now, and three bedrooms in just over three years. It would be silly to put me into a two bedroom now, make the adaptions and then have to move me in three years to a more suitable house. So I need a three bedroom. I can bid on them too, I don't have to take offers fortunately. But if I was in a totally unsuitable property, as the OP is, I'd get a higher band category and rehoused far quicker with better choices.

I think you should go and speak to your housing officer OP.

who is being horrible? the op needs to clarify her situation with her housing provider. each borough operates differently. posters here have a good general idea of how their boroughs work but not hers.

talk to them before going to CAB. ensure that they have up to date information about your needs. get a home visit from your housing officer if you can.

Op hold out until you get somewhere suitable for your needs.

And no one should be grateful for a damp flat

I may be wrong but i'm sure OP has serious asthma. A damp flat could be life or death. 3rd bedroom will be for carer.

Good luck hope something suitable comes up soon.

Sorry, sorry, something came up so I didn't come back, I'm not usually that annoying, I hate when people don't come back!
I'm single with one DD, I need the third bedroom for a carer, I didn't make that rule, the HA did, and the Carer's agencies who insist their carers need their own room.
I haven't had an overnight carer yet, but the time will come, and I already get high rate care DLA for this.
Damp is an absolute no no, I have brittle asthma.
It's just a waste of everyone's time. They did this to me before, I can in theory turn down two properties for whatever reason I like, but then must accept the third, but because what they are offering is unsuitable, I don't want them to count as offers, but then they make me go through the rigmarole of appealing and I have to get the nurse involved again.
The nurse has already recommended I get a three bed house, in fact she wants me to have one of the new ones due to be built soon, which can then be adapted for me whilst it's built, as my illness is progressive/degenerative.

op, i hope becuase you are classed as NEEDING a 3 bed, that there will no penalty for refusing another two bed, which is what I 'think' what you are in now. It would be totally pointless to move somewhere that isn't suitable, and the same as you have now.

Getting a 3 bed ground floor sounds tricky tho.

what a waste of time then all round, when they could be giving the two bed home to someone who is suited to it and in need.

It's unfair if you have 3 offers and then the are offering you unsuitable places, which yu have to turn down.

can you ring and say this??

The system is fucked. So you get penalised for turning down something that isn't suitable in the first place. Mental.

Oh, I will, to which they'll then say it's fine, and I'll have to repeat the three bed thing, and tell them to check the nurses letter again (the nurse works for them btw), and it's all just a frustrating, waste of time, when as you say, they could offer the flat to someone suited to it, not that I think anyone's suited to a damp flat really but that's another point.

Here btw, even under new rules it still means I'll need a three bed.
Carer's agencies won't allow their Carers to sleep on the couch, so you do need the extra room for them.

Well, I finally managed to get hold of someone.
I've met her before, she's usually very nice but this time insisted it's my second offer, even though I appealed the last one, and I need to appeal this one too.
She also told me I'm on the list for a two bed, and will need to show her my DLA award and then she'll have to check the rules to make sure I am entitled to a three.
The reason I've never shown anyone in the homeless department my DLA award is because they've never asked to see it!
Bloody useless idiots.