Limited council tenancies

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Council housing only for two years Guardian report

Surely this is wrong?

i have moved them everytime expat. some white goods have gone from masionette, to bungalow to house.

Exactly, Upwind! And, having moved completely on our own this time, with 3 young children underfoot, I'd rather cook off a camp stove for life than move all that stuff every 6 months.

I mean that to the bottom of my soul.

Also, if short-assured tenancy is all I have to look forward to fo the rest of my life I would like to bake some quality cakes to cheer myself up.

kept all my books too. = even when I moved myself.

Only thing I left behind was my piano - which I was planning on getting rid of anyhow

I'm on the waiting list for LHA figure we ever get one will take best part of 2 years to get any adaptions done Anyway .Then once done am hoping there think well will cost to much to move them

Mind that's if we ever get one

I could not face moving all that every 6 months, possibly. A lot of people couldn't.

Plus, as Upwind pointed out, they might not fit in the new place. There might not be room for them (housing benefit caps = overcrowding), landlord might not want them in there, etc.

I do have a huge book collection. I'm keeping a hold of it for when they decide that poor people can't have heating for the cold half of the year

I moved it all 3 times in a year

I'd rather live with stacks of boxes and hardly be able to move in my bedroom than let it all o

I expected them to be bad, but I am shocked to my bones at what this government is doing under the pretext of "reducing the deficit"

this and the legal aid thing are just evil

books weigh a ton to move. i hate packing books away :(

i just really want to knock down walls in this place and increase the living space, but cant as its not my place :(

A lot of people don't feel they can, Baroque. Or they actually cannot.

Well, you know, SpringHeeled, if you're poor you deserve it, in their eyes.

What did they do to legal aid?

I missed this.

(New baby in house)

I think we do need to get rid of tenancies for life from social housing. I don't see whats wrong with re-assessing peoples needs and means regularly.

i dont mind being reassessed, but not every 2years! a lot can happen in 2yrs. or not.

I know expat - I just couldn't imagine leaving that stuff behind or getting rid

Even if I had to make a bed from my books and sleep on them

Why not every 2 years, 2 years is quite a long time

moving costs alone would leave me broke alone....and how as a lone parent would i move whitegoods myself!!?

and i have dc in middle of gcse and a levels.....so changing schools is going to affect them alot!!

here ducks

...and I admire your drive to keep up with current affairs- when I had a new baby in the house, iirc, I only managed Seinfeld box sets

I'm the same Baroque.
My book collection is a life-long one and something I'd be damned if I'm giving up.

maybe it seems like a long time. but i just always measure 2yrs in length of time that dh spent on the transplant list iyswim.

also its taken me 2yrs to fix this place up. in those 2years dh has gone from recovering from transplant, to working part-time to trying to get into fulltime work.

the thought of uprooting my family every 2 years fills me with dread. 5yrs is more do-able, as by then, a child starting reception would be almost all the way through primary school, and wont be uprooted from their friends and social lives. dd's have settled into this area well, and i dont want to move them already.

Tiffany - get the kids to help (or friends)

DS1 and 2 (8 and 5 at the time) helped me move quite a lot of stuff the first time I moved last year including a wardrobe that's heavier than my washing machine up a flight of stairs that had 2 90 degree turns in it (I did have to patch up the wall afterwards )

2 (female) friends helped me move the stuff from one house to the van and into the new house - though had to leave most of it in the garage/living room because the van had to be taken back.

Oh, and iLove, don't forget all the 'No Children, No DSS' private landlords out there.

Most, actually.

Scary Reading SpringHeeledJack!

I'm going back to Frasier and Desperate Housewives until this all blows over.....[hopeful]

'the thought of uprooting my family every 2 years fills me with dread.'

Oh, misdee, that's 2 years and bounced out of your social landlord housing. Meaning back to the world of 6-month short-assured. Meaning you could be scrambling to move that family and find somewhere else to live every 6 months.

huddspur has no children.

the thing is, it's not as if it's free accommodation, ffs! you have to pay for it- and (especially in HAs) it's not cheap!

cheaper than a private landlord, yes- but you have to factor in that private landlords are in the main trying to cover their mortgages and make a profit

[used to be a housing officer now tearing hair out in despair emoticon]