The house next to ours is owned by the council and managed by a housing association. It's divided into studio flats, which means they can't let to families, but tend to let to single people with a proven housing need. In practice this has meant people newly discharged from prison, and/or people with mental health problems.
We've had ongoing discussions with the council/HA going back a few years about the behaviour of one of their tenants, who clearly has mental problems that are not being adequately supported in the community. We have loud music and banging at all hours of the day and night, him leaning out of windows shouting, ranting and swearing, racist abuse at passers-by and throwing mouldy food remains into our garden, where my toddler can pick them up.
Because much of this is on record (we've had council's environmental health people, the police, the noise patrol etc etc involved), I think we would find it difficult to sell our house for anything approaching its proper value. We've now decided that once they get this tenant out, we're just going to cut our losses and sell. But does anyone know whether we have any legal claim against the council/HA for any financial loss we might incur if we had to sell in a hurry?