Going to see MP today about housing probs, but my minds gone blank..HELP

[nutcracker]

Me and dp are going to see the m.p tonight to see if she can help with our problems getting rehoused.

My mind has gone completly blank. I don't want to go in there and just ramble on. I have tried writting a couple of things down but it looks pathetic at the mo.

I keep thinking that she's just going to wonder what the hell i'm moaning about.

Help please

Nutty do a chronology of your housing situation.

Ie start at the beginning and list all the times you have tried to move and why. Detail the number of calls etc you have made, take evidence of your doctor's opinion that you should move, appear desperate and almost suicidal!

also talk about positives which moving could help you to achieve - 'moving on' education-wise, training etc - all possible if you are helped just a little bit with a leg-up iykwim

Well appearing desperate and suicidal won't be a problem CD.

Thats a good idea about me mentioning the training Bundle, as i'm planning on training to be a nurse and live very close to hospital at the mo.

The only other things i could think of were
That i've got family living in the area
My dd's are settled in school/nursery

I am also going to mention the fact that the council keep trying to force me to move away, and i'm going to suggest that birmingham city council start a scheme like derby city council have, wher all empty properties are advertised on the net and in locaL papers and then people apply for them and all of their current circumstances get taken into consideration.

nutty

Also tell them how frustrating it is that you keep getting given mis-information (eg the debacle with the 3 no 4 no 3 no 4 bedroom house last week!)

nutty, you mentioned on the other thread that your stepdaughter comes to stay at weekends? Doesn't that make your crowding even worse? Could you suggest that she might be coming to live with you sometime soon? (Or say that you couldn't consider having her living with you now because of your lack of space?)

Look through mumsnet at all the threads you've started about different places in the UK and make a list of them, all over the country, anywhere, because you are so desperate to get out of where you are - even thinking of moving 100s of miles from your family - when there are properties in your area that would be suitable, you shouldn't have to be doing that.

Cd - Yes i will tell them about that, it was ridicuolous.

Janh - I already have maximum over crowding points, so i could invite the whole street to live with me and it wouldn't make any difference.
I have managed to get them to put it as a note on my file though, that dp's d stays with us.

Thankyou Ks

I will of course give you all a full report later on

Could you stand becoming a subject of media interest, Nutty?
Birmingham city council has been Labour-controlled for donkey's years. Birmingham also has a very high number of Council properties in deterioration or simply abandoned; they need rennovations or replacing. When Lynne Jones (MP) was on the city council she took special interest in housing. That was before 1997. Now she's at Westminster and is the housing situation in Birmingham any better? Not from your perspective!

There's a lot of room for your situation to be made into political point scoring for the Sutton Coldfield MP (forget who he is, but it's a Tory when all or almost all the others in Birmingham are Labour). Keeping in mind that you could feel manipulated & no better off at the end of the process, but playing up the political side of the issue might persuade your MP take it more seriously.

Zebra - I would anything to get rehoused, and i mean anything.

The M.P we are going to see is June somebody i think.

Have to admitt that i no nothing about politics, but am increasingly aware that Labour are not doing anything to help people in my situation.

I would be more than willing for them to make my situation into a political point. Even if it didn't directly help me, it may help someone else in the future if changes are made.

Hi Nutty,
Hope it goes well for you tonight

Have a look back through Mumsnet and chronologically date all the issues and mis-information you have been given
Also the number of empty homes you have come accross yourself...

I so hope that this helps you
Sonnetxxx

Right we've just got back.

Explained the whole situation, i didn't waffle dp did that instead. Anyway she is going to ring the council and the H/A, and just check what they are doing and let it be known that i have spoken to her.
I don't think the council will take much notice but i'm hoping that the H/A will especially as my name is on the tip of their tounge just latley anyway.
Good result for a change

Glad to hear t was so positive Nutty.
I hope you get some results.