Housing help inquiry

[Jasmin1995]

Hi all, looking for some advice also.
I’m 26 y/o living in Greenwich Borough, have no family in the UK and am in a house share (my rent is £500) a month, am single and have recently found out I am pregnant. My housemates won’t want a baby living in the house with us so I will have to look for alternative accommodation. The only thing is I won’t be able to afford it.. I am on £33000 a year so I am not sure if or how much housing benefit or support I would be entitled to. I would probably go part time which would bring my salary down to £28000 eventually but any support or advice appreciated ladies thank you x

i think you should put that to chat, not london.
you could get more response.
good luck.

That’s cheap for a Greenwich house share.

Agree put it in a busier section.

Greenwich Borough could mean places like Plumstead as well I think but £500 for a room in a shared house in London is incredibly cheap I agree.

There's a website call 'entitled to'.
Honestly though, you may find that you need to move out of London. Have a look at the cost of childcare in London. It's extortionate.

You’ve posted this multiple times

OP did you not get satisfactory answers on your thread the other day? You seem to be asking the same question.

The Entitled To website has a calculator so you can see what help you might get.

Childcare is bloody expensive unfortunately.
Do you have to live in inner London? Some of the outer boroughs may be a lot cheaper to rent (although you may have more travel costs etc).

Is the father on the scene at all? Do try and get a CMS claim in place if possible. It might not be much but your child is entitled to it.

You can get an estimate of what benefits you could claim on the Entitled To website.

However London is a really expensive place to live with a child. Rent is expensive and you will have less choice renting with a baby eg fewer flatshares will accept a baby, your income will go down if you go part time.

You will also need to pay for childcare, and financially manage maternity leave.

Do you need to be in London? Are there any other places you have family/ friends and could work?

Will the baby's father be involved? Will he support you financially?

I posted it under someone else’s thread as I did not know how to create my own. That person then kindly showed me how to. Your comment is not helpful.

This is going to be really hard. Going it alone in an expensive area with no suitable housing in place. Make sure you know exactly what payments you are entitled to from your employer's maternity package. And apply for maintenance from the father.

www.gingerbread.org.uk/ offers advice to single-parent families.

Is yours a “strangers under the same roof” houseshare, or are these your friends? They can’t kick you out for having a baby, in any case.

Chase the father for maintenance and support.

Move out of expensive area.

@Jasmin1995

I posted it under someone else’s thread as I did not know how to create my own. That person then kindly showed me how to. Your comment is not helpful.

You also have an identical thread in chat which is what I was referring to.

Hi OP.

Congratulations on the pregnancy (I assume it's happy news?)

How about the father? Will he be contributing?

Where do you work? Depending on how much CMS you get, I'd say you're probably best off moving to a cheaper borough, or outside London altogether.

I assuming you don't have an urgent need to stay in Greenwich, or even London at all?

It would be different if your family were close by. Quite understandably you'd have more need to stay close for support (and perhaps childcare).

I wouldn't rely on the council unfortunately.

London is the epicentre of the public health housing and homelessness emergency.

Governments going back 30-40 years have levelled London's housing right down.

Seriously OP, two thirds of England's homeless families are in London. You likely wouldn't want to be where they put you.

It might be different if it wasn't London - because the other regions have more affordable housing (than London) for the low to medium waged and more social housing.

But in London(because governments don't care about Londoners) whole families often have to live, sometimes for several years, in rooms in really grotty temporary accommodation.

Social housing waits in London can be 10/15 years or more.

It's horrendous.

The other issue you potentially face is that, for the last 10 or so years, many London councils have been socially cleansing homeless families out of London. You could get sent to a private rent somewhere as far as Birmingham, or even further afield. No good if you hope to keep your job.

Look at the outer suburbs or outside London. More affordable housing and a better quality of life - for you and for baby.