To ask if you are under-occupying social housing that you consider downsizing?

[IckyBex]

If you are in a property with space you no longer need for whatever reason please consider asking to transfer to a smaller property. There are so many families waiting for three or four bedroom housing and hardly any available.
Staying in your four bedroom house after all of your children have left home is depriving another family of the opportunity that you were given.

Blue it's no where near different. People who own their house have usually saved for years for a deposit and have mortgages and aren't entitled to housing benefits. So if they have bought their houses it's no where near the same as those who have been granted cheaper houses to live in on long term tendencies.

It's only ever "your home" if you've bought it. Otherwise it belongs to the landlord or the council and you only have a right to be there for as long as they say you can rent it for.

Oh seriously of course social housing is cheaper ffs. Round where I live a council 1 bed flat is 400 per month and a private rented one is 800. Half the Fucking price. It is exactly as saucy jack says, downsizing needs to be a requirement. Mandatory, no oh i don't fancy it. People with young families need the extra room. And its not all about moving to a high rise, there's plenty of ground floor or 1st floor flats but maybe they don't have a garden or May be the garden is shared so the people in who are unoccupying decide to stay put in their lovely 3 bed with garden. It's wrong and unfair.

Excuse any bloody phone corrections

Frequency a whole 50p a week? Christ you're going to be rolling in it in no time. Get yourself on Rightmove to look for a property.

@Whenwillitstop1 read my post a little further up on cost here.

Oh seriously of course social housing is cheaper ffs

Way up the thread I posted links of social housing in an area close to where I live and links to private rented.

If you scroll back, you'll find they're very similar.

Not. All. Areas. Are. London.

Not all areas have a shortage of SH.

Comparing people who own their homes to those who are living in SH is incomparable.

Home ownership is bloody expensive. My next door neighbours who are in SH have just had all their windows replaced and non of them work (where Mum and dad live there where the youngest child is 22.) Meanwhile next door (me) the home owner with 2 primary school aged children is out the door by 8am every morning to work and school with no chance of having windows replaced for many years because we are too busy paying a mortgage and council tax so no hope of giving up work to sit in a nice 3 bed council house where we can FUCK ALL.

Not. All. Areas. Are. London

Not all areas have a shortage of SH

You're wasting your time

London's a bit of a shit hole anyway. Why people choose to live in it boggles my head never mind paying through the nose for the privilege and then add insult to injury People think everywhere else plays by the same rules.

London isn't the benchmark for the UK.

wow... I just checked my area..
currently in SH and paying £404pcm
a private rental of similar property just up the road... £420

Quids... In..

Mimpi Couldnt she come and live with you while she looks for somewhere else That would free up the house.

She has no intention of ever leaving it. But even if she would, no she couldn't live with me as I've had no contact with her for years. I'd kill myself if I had to live with her again.

Oh wow they had their windows replaced Should they still be grateful if the work was not up to standard or (God forbid) even dangerous?

so no hope of giving up work to sit in a nice 3 bed council house

The 2 go hand in hand? Geddin, I must have missed the memo

Klutzy you're minted! Frequency is going to be so jealous

I see Mimpi Fair enough.

Im childfree by choice and me and DH have been in our one bedroom flat for 24 years.

Am currently looking at sheltered housing due to DHs age and limited mobility If we are succesful that will free up this flat.

"You should be grateful because its free" The people of Grenfell got told the same about their refurb.

Frequency do you want to tell them on this thread about the special freebie feature in your garden or shall i?

My upstairs windows don't work, but they are upstairs windows, so not essential to security. That's why they don't work. It's my responsibility to fix them and they're not a priority right now as the other things that are my responsibility need fixing first.

The HA came out, looked at them, told me they need re-something or anothering and left. I think they meant they've dropped and need new hinges and rehanging.

I've been waiting for them to come and fix the downstairs one that's done the same since I moved but as they left shit (literal, actual fucking shit) floating about in my garden for a month, I'm not holding my breath on the downstairs window being fixed anytime soon.

Oh the joys of SH. Aren't we all so lucky?

Mind I'll take floating shit and busted windows over section 21's and thirty days notice to pull £1500 out of your arse because your LL has realised buy to let in your town ain't that profitable afterall and decided to sell up.

with no chance of having windows replaced for many years because we are too busy paying a mortgage and council tax for next door's windows, so no hope of giving up work

Ah Gin Gin Gin you're council tax doesn't pay for SH AND people in SH pay council tax too, did you know that?

@whenwillitallstop - I can tell you chapter and verse if you like about how in some areas social housing rents are not cheaper than private sector rents but somehow I think you'll ignore this as it doesn't fit your preconceived narrative....

Your ffs, I'm going to sling my phone somewhere dark before long. Stupid iOS updates.

I didn't know pensioners were exempt from the bedroom tax.
Given it's mainly pensioners, or peopleclose to pension age that are under occupying (quite severely too, 1-2 people in a 4+ bed) that's a bit daft.
Almost like the conservatives don't want to piss off their core voters..

I saw someone on here a few years ago saying that all social housing tenants get their TV licences paid for them.

Totally agree whenwillitstop. Talking sense.

However, it seems to be very different depending on the area. I can see why people wouldn't want to move if private rent is hardly any less than their SH rent. If this is the case then private rents need to be fairer.

Sounds like they need to build more smaller places in better areas to accommodate those who do want to downsize. Some of these stories are crazy.

The windows are not replaced for the tenants benefit. They are replaced because social housing will like to maintain their housing stock.

with no chance of having windows replaced for many years because we are too busy paying a mortgage and council tax for next door's windows, so no hope of giving up work

At least we can see the true colours coming out now 😂