if your in band b for council housing, do you actually ever have a chance of getting a house

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Depends on where you live. Ask the council, they should be able to tell you how many band bs got housed last year. Ask about the areas/size of home you're looking for too.

I suspect it depends on your local housing stock. If you look on your local choose n move results for allocated homes, it will tell you how long somebody waited, and what band they were in.

On ours, someone recently got a 3 bed home on band b, having been on the list since July. There were over 40 bids for it.

Depends how far down you are on the list of B band. Even if you bid first, priority b bands come higher up list.

It also depends on how many priority A bands applications that quota.

And area for example London it would be unlikely but east mids you stand a chance.

Do as pp said phone council and ask them.

Our council gave a large 3 bed house in a spectacular location with huge gardens back and front to a family evicted from a neighbouring council for antisocial behaviour, who only had 2 toddlers so paid bedroom tax from the day they moved in... Previously only 2 houses have come up in this village in 12 years - the first I got with 5 kids, 3 disabled. The second another family with 5 kids, 2 of whom were disabled... But in 2013 they are letting to tiny families too small to even fill the house, who were not homeless (in fact had a detached private rental and in the words of the woman tenant only took this house "as I liked the french windows").

Hardly an undesirable or hard to let property. So from this I have to conclude there are more houses than councils pretend. Go figure.

We did but only because we had notice on our rented house. And no money for a deposit on another private rental.

We didn't get a house...but a flat...which we remain massively grateful for as though small, it is in a lovely area with it's own garden.

Sinister sadly the A's are people on the streets or in hostels or at risk.

Who mentioned jobs?? Idiot.

i don't know what you mean by a b band as our housing register is bronze, silver, gold and emergency.

we were on bronze (should have been on silver) and were housed very quickly, within a few months.
however, the house we bid on was giving priority to people with a local connection to the small village it was in. My dad lived in the village.
also, because it is out in the sticks there was only about 8 bids compared to 30 for a similar property in the town.

I was told that in reality band B is the highest priority as people are only placed in band A in exceptional circumstances.
Might be different in other areas though.

Yes it all depends on the area. Where I live you've got to have about 4 children and be living in a box to get a house. But I am very happy that we got what we did. It's way too small for a family of four but we manage...and when the DC are older I can apply for a house again.

Yes they do. Our council has a bidding system and it's mostly "won" by band B applicants.

Band A (homeless) tend to get given the ex-crack den flats that nobody else would want. Happened to me and several other mums from school.

Here they can move from a neighbouring council and don't even have to have the offer of work, or family, in the area. Ten years ago, everyone who came here came because they were locals, or for work, or both. It makes no sense. My ex neighbour came here 20 years ago from the same neighbouring village I came from - her family had farmed here for generations. As had mine. Our new neighbours come from ten miles away, have no family in this village, no family connections with it and, a year on, are still unemployed so clearly didn't come here for work. Maybe my council are just dicks, re-housing people who have no need to be re-housed. But as I say, ten and twenty years ago they were still re-housing locals, with genuine need.

I'm just outside london and we were a band C living with my parents. Then moved to band B when they realised dp worked (should of been B all along) we got a place almost 2 years of being on the list

After almost 2 years..

I got a council house after 5 months on band B, but it was 7 years ago and in a NW city. They didn't have a bidding system back then. Nice area, 2 bed house with garden (good size for us as 1 adult and 1 child). I have friends who have been allocated housing on band B more recently, so it still is possible.

Hi, i don't know if i can get any help with my situation. I am 24 years old living with my parents and we are waiting for a two bedroom house or flat from council for over 10 years. Still nothing. My mum going through mental/suffocating illness over the last few months cz of the property we also got a medical letter from the gp proving that. I am suffering from a serious back pain as i have slept on the sofa for years and still am as i don't have space to put a bed. Been told that if I continue sleeping on the couch it could worsen up to something really serious. My dad also a heart/diabetic patient. Our one bed studio flat also been the victim of a burglar attack. Which is another reason mum feels scared all the time. We also been targeted of attack where every other day we would wake up to see someone has thrown eggs in our car. Sometimes youngsters keep on banging our windows too. Is there any chance that we hold to maybe soon get a 2 bedroom house or flat from this tiny one bedroom studio flat. Which doesn't even have partition from the bed where mum dad lives to where i sleep on the couch. I never had any privacy in my life cz of that. Now that i am 24 looking to get married I cannot even to do that cz of this situations. We tried to move into a private house cz of the financial situation we could not do that. We have almost £10k loan in our head. Which is another reason we cannot privately rent a bigger house. I will highly appreciate your time & concerns. Many thanks

Band B is usually on medical grounds I think isn't it?

So they have to make sure the house they allocate you is adapted to your needs.
Could be worse OP. I'm stuck in an absolute antisocial shithole with no adaptations, too far away from any of my family and friends who help,miles away from DCs schools (we couldn't get them into our catchment school as my baptised child and RC family isn't catholic enough) and I only just qualified for band 4. (I don't qualify for band 2 as I dont get PIP despite all my health problems).

Maybe my council are just dicks, re-housing people who have no need to be re-housed

Do people who dont work not need to be rehoused then?

Fayha your parents need to keep badgering the council. Ring the police every time this happens. Then ring the council up and give the incident/crime numbers. Every single time.

You need to give more info OP.

Depends on your situation, and also the availability of properties in your area. I have seen people go on the list with very little medical need, (sometimes none) and no overcrowding etc, and get housed within 6 months. And I have also seen people struggling with mobility, and/or living with 4 kids in a 2 bed flat, waiting for 5 years with no luck.

So you may as well ask 'how long is a piece of string' I'm sorry to say. If you want further answers, you'll need to contact your local authority (or whoever holds the housing list in your town.)

Amazed to see at least 4 or 5 messages 'withdrawn at poster's request' and 'deleted by MN' on the first page! WTF have people been saying???