'supported living for challenging youngsters' being built next door.

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NC for this as could be outing. This is more of a WWYD really. I am at risk of sounding like a right NIMBY and I hate that its bringing this out in me but...
I am a single parent about to move to a new house. Building work has started on a 'supported living for challenging youngsters' development right next door.
Now, I have lived in some of the most gang-riven areas in the country without a thought but in my old age and with a child I admit I am worried about crime, drugs and ability to sell house on. I love the house and everything else is good.
WWYD? Still proceed with the purchase?

This is a genuine post, I don't have many people to discuss this with and I have never worried about house values etc in my life! I am genuinely surprised at my reaction to this.

Don't buy it.

Not quite the same thing, but someone I work with lives on the same street as a bail hostel. She's had lots of issues with the residents there. She's been trying to sell her house for the last two years with no success, and has lowered the price twice.

I wouldn't because of the re-sale factor, your buying it at market value for it not being there, but you will be selling it at a lower market value because it is there.

I think Yabu, because these young people have to live somewhere.

And they will.

They'll live in the house being built for them.

However, that doesn't mean the OP has to buy the house next door and it doesn't mean she's BU if she chooses not to.

I've just moved and have found out the local council have given permission for a huge betting shop to open at the bottom of my road. There are also several halfway houses in the area and I've now seen several people urinating in my garden! Yesterday I asked the twat to stop and he told me to fuck off.

If I'd have known all of this before we bought it, we wouldn't have bought here. I like the flat but the area is not great. Regular burglaries on our road supposedly by crack heads. Urgh!

Don't buy it.

What do you mean by challenging? My eldest lives in a home for adults with severe autism, when it was first built neighbours where in uproar because they thought criminals where moving in n, they jumped to the very wrong and heartbreaking conclusion without finding out the facts.

A place like this was built not from use. The police were constantly there and anyone walking past had to run the gauntlet of having anything from plates to a TV being thrown out of the upstairs windows.

Awful.

Your re sale would be so difficult. It would put me off- definitely pull out!

*And they will.

They'll live in the house being built for them.

However, that doesn't mean the OP has to buy the house next door and it doesn't mean she's BU if she chooses not to.*

Yep.

I can see different sides to this as we are currently looking at supported living accommodation for my son, which I might add will not be for another five years but just want to see what is available and what type of accommodation there is out there.
Now my son like many others would be classed as having challenging behaviour, but is very vulnerable as he is non verbal, severe learning difficulties and has occasional outbursts of tantrums if something in his routine has changed, he also has no sense of danger so he would therefore need constant supervision by an adult which means he wouldn't be roaming the street.
Now from another view, my Dh is an estate agent and he said to me after we viewed one property where we were waiting to be let in along with the social worker, a gentleman across the road started swearing and shouting really loudly about the cars parked in the road, which I might add were not parked over anyone's driveway. I was very shocked and upset by this but Dh said you will get this as the first thing people say to him when they view properties is there any social housing nearby. My Dh did say it can affect the saleability and value of the nearby properties, but I as a mum with a young adult with special needs can understand your concerns but where to we place these young people to enable them to be part of the community?

WWYD? Still proceed with the purchase?

Fuck no, you need to be confident that you are able to re -sell it, should that become either desirable or necessary.

I think you need to know an awful lot more about the Trust and its reputation before deciding. It doesn't necessarily mean they will all be "little shits", as one PP charmingly put it.

I have one next door, and yes, we were all filled with trepidation when it was first planned. We attended various NIMBY meetings and protests, and everyone was very nice and reassuring and completely ignored our objections and the plan was approved. Two neighbours immediately put their houses on the market.

However, that was 15 years ago and it really has been fine. I think in all that time I've seen a police car there about 10 times, but no idea why as we were unaware of anything happening. Any disturbance is no worse than teens anywhere else, and it really ia just once in a blue moon. It hasn't affected property prices, people have sold their homes with no problem, and the unit has an open day once a year where the neighbours can go round and meet the "inmates". They're generally good kids who've had a bad start in life and need someone to give them a break.

Be that person.

It sounds like the sellers are trying to get out just in time so personally I would not buy the house.

I wouldn't buy a house next to this.
Solely because the value/ saleability of your house will go down as soon as it is built.
Let someone else have the hassle.

Stop the proceedings.

At the very least because the price your house is worth is very likely to change (and go down) once that housing has been built.

I've worked in and lived next door to, a few places like this. A lot depends on the organization and the staff. Poorly run, they are awful. Well run, they are better than most.

And I do suggest people who think young people with challenging behaviour are little shits educate themselves. Abuse, a series of foster homes, terrible experiences? I'm sure you'd sail through that.

I wouldn't chance it

I wouldn't want to buy a house next door. Rent for a year maybe, but not invest my money in.

I wouldn't buy it. Definitely not.

We have new neighbours (not yet met them). I wonder if they will regret moving next to us? We have two adult sons with special needs, plus foster carers for teenagers with a multitude of differing behavioural issues. Oh dear. Can anyone suggest a desert island?

Purple I wouldn't even rent there.

Hell no

My mate lives two doors down from one. Imagine all the roughest troublemakers you've ever met living in one house. Next door to you. Why would you buy it!

She has constant shouting and swearing, music at all hours, broken bottles, motorbikes raced up and down the street, fighting, drugs, police visits. It's made her road hellish.

I walk past one of these daily. I wouldn't move there because of noise. They often have music blasting out of open windows. The police are there fairly regularly. They throw rubbish out of the windows.

Depends on what sort of supported living and type of challenging behaviour ( since challenging behaviour has many forms). Ds has challenging behaviour (self harms) but is not a little shit.