Council housing - wait times..

[LolaPickle]

Good evening all,

If you have recently, say over the last two years, been offered a place with the local authority (standard accommodation / no adaptations) - would you mind answering..

How long did you wait?
What band were you in?

I am supporting a vulnerable person who is about to be homeless

Looking for actual real life experiences on the above questions - not the official lines as am pretty well read up on all that for my local area..... realistic wait times from real people who have been through it, and wondered what my area, along with the rest of the Uk was looking like...

Just looking for real life experiences and wait times - Genuinely don't need any further info and trying to help a vulnerable person who looks to me for help.

PS.... please don't flame me for posting in AIBU..It is my first post, although been a long time lurker...and admit to posting here for traffic and hopefully helpful insights

georgie it was certainly over the top! What is wrong with people?

I volunteer for a Foodbank in the Thames Valley, so see a lot of people in need of or living in social housing.

Recently, there has been a trend towards converting town centre office blocks into flats. I think this is becoming more and more popular throughout the country due to planning laws and some financial lenders seeing it as the next ‘big opporunity’ in property investment. Consequently, there is a massive oversupply of flats (1 or 2 bed) with very limited parking.

At the Foodbank we are starting to see more and more families being shifted into these flats from temporary housing in London boroughs. I don’t know how the legalities of this work, but it seems massively disruptive for the families. In one case, a family was moved into a flat which didn’t have running water for 3 days.

I can’t see this policy carrying on indefinitely without problems.

We didn't wait long. I can't remember exactly but less than six months (both to get in and then move a few years later). We were however not particularly fussy about location - we were happy to be in a one of the less desirable areas of our city, I know many people wouldn't live here at all but were happy where we are and it definitely had an impact on how long we waited.

Thanks all. Yes in my situation , undesirable areas are being bidded for

I rang our local housing office for advice, and came off the phone feeling very shook up. I wish I had recorded the phone call, as it was so rude

I was on hold for half hour and when the caseworker answered, she was aggressive immediately, and went into a five minute rant, before asking me what I had bothered to phone for... Literally cried my eyes out when I came off the phone..and I'm not normally shook up easily

I can only imagine what it is like for vulnerable people who ring and get spoken to like that - these are the people that are at the front line of services for needy people

I hope the bitch catches a does of something that burns when she pisses.

Lola Unfortunately reading that doesnt surprise me at all.

My local council no longer offers lifetime tenancy, and you cannot inherit a tenancy either.

I was one of the last to get a lifetime tenancy, as my council changed the rules almost as soon as the law was tweaked to allow them to do so.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/heartbreaking-reason-homeless-man-ended-13279998?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

"The homeless man found dead days after he was attacked with red spray paint ended up on the streets after his mum died of cancer, his heartbroken family revealed today.

Michael Cash, 32, was forced to leave his council home because it was in the name of his mum Elaine. The 'harmless, kind, gentle soul' fell in with the wrong crowd, and ended up on drugs."

I waited approximately 8 months in the North
East. Band C I think it was. Over crowded.