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help me with my housing situation please!!!!!!!!

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sparklymieow · 02/06/2005 14:47

Some of you will have read my threads on my neighbours but we are pushing to get moved, having the housing manager coming out tomorrow and I want to get out of here. My SIL is in Bolton and I have expressed an inerested in 2 houses up there. Homeless won't help because the police can't give me a letter, council want to me to start the eviction process (ie complain and get them to sort it out or face eviction) but I can't do that as I know it will make things worse. Now I need some help to get us moved, I have 2 disabled kids and they can't live like this, and I have to go out a lot for appointments etc and its so scary going out. Please help me.

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zipzip · 08/06/2005 19:04

that's grammar with an a not an e ooops

zipzip · 08/06/2005 19:07

double check what spell check misses -
lifes will probably sneak through, should be lives
insure will sneak - should be ensure.

hate spell check for this! why doesn't it know what we mean!!! LOL

spacecadet · 08/06/2005 22:06

emailing your mp is an excellent idea sparkly.

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sparklymieow · 08/06/2005 22:59

its done now, no going back..... I guess I will hear from him soon.

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sparklymieow · 09/06/2005 09:16

wondr what today will bring?? My OT social worker is phoning me today to get a number for Bolton council so she can phone them and see what information they want.

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sparklymieow · 09/06/2005 12:34

are you lot bored of this??

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misdee · 09/06/2005 12:35

no.

assumedname · 09/06/2005 12:36

How are you holding up today?

Hope you hear from MP very soon.

jessicasmummy · 09/06/2005 12:37

Hows things today SM? Feel better after writing to councillor?

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sparklymieow · 09/06/2005 12:39

I am ok, had a sleep this morning, still feel crappy tho. They are outside working on a car. [puking emoticon] make me nervey them just being there, GP never phoned me back, the housing dept. never phoned me back, they are fed up with it all already so imagine if I have to do what they want (log and report) they ain't gonna be much help are they?

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misdee · 09/06/2005 12:40

keep calling.

remember its not going to happen overnight, but onjce you get offered somethingyou could be out in a matter of weeks.

jessicasmummy · 09/06/2005 12:40

Phone GP again.... need to keep on their backs hun. I know its hard work and tiring but it needs to be done.

Also, when your phone bill comes through, highlight all the calls you have had to make in regards to this issue as a log also.

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sparklymieow · 09/06/2005 12:41

but they said they won't move us....... [brick wall]

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sparklymieow · 09/06/2005 12:42

I just have had enough..... noone wants to help.....

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jessicasmummy · 09/06/2005 12:42

They will if you keep on at them hun.

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sparklymieow · 09/06/2005 12:43

the won't because 'your house is ideal for your family's needs' and 'a lot of money has been put into it'

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misdee · 09/06/2005 12:43

you have filled in the medical forms etc, wait til lyou get back on the list, and with medical points etc then go on some more at them. keep on their backs in the meantime.

remember us, 'you are ok in a masionette, you cant have a bungalow, you must take a 3bed g/f flat' 4months of fighting it took mieow. if you give up now then they have won, the council have won. you need to fight this to win.

even now i cant belive how much i fought for this place and won in the end.

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sparklymieow · 09/06/2005 12:45

but the difference is that you weren't in a suitable property, we are..... at present

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misdee · 09/06/2005 12:46

they said we were for a while. dh could climb stairs at that point.

and once again, you are not i na suitable property!!

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sparklymieow · 09/06/2005 12:48

but they will agrue that they just don't have a s=uitable property, and because ours is (atm) they want to keep us here......

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expatinscotland · 09/06/2005 12:48

Sparkly

You have to help yourself as well. As zipzip said, start keeping a log, a detailed one. You don't need official log sheets, plain old pen and paper will do.

You've informed all the authorities, now wait a week or so and then start following up.

But there's only so much they can do immediately.

These things just don't happen overnight. Friends of mine who have been left completely homeless fleeing violent relationships have spent months in B&Bs and refuges before even be offered any accommodation at all. And then they pretty much had to take what they could get.

High housing costs make it hard to accommodate everyone speedily.

I'm sure they're doing all they can at the moment. But you must understand that you're, unfortunately, probably not the only one who is in this type of situation. We've been in such a situation ourselves with our downstairs neighbour and it took us a year to locate new accommodation.

And that on top of that there are likely many homeless families who also need accommodation as well.

assumedname · 09/06/2005 12:49

Your house is not suitable for you long-term though is it? - hope I've got that right. So you could keep saying that back to them.

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sparklymieow · 09/06/2005 12:55

the thing that i can't work out that if it was dh doing this too me i would have been out of here ages ago.

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expatinscotland · 09/06/2005 12:59

Well, yes, b/c a partner actually occupies the property with you. But this is a neighbour and what's more it's the neighbouring tenants' children. So the council also has some legal issues to take in hand if pursuing an ASBO.

You just have to continue keeping logs and keeping in touch with the authorities. And, yes, it may take some months. They may be telling the truth: that they just don't have accommodation available just now to accommodate your families' needs. It's certainly true in our council, with a record number of homeless and ageing pensioners.

Sorry, hon, I know it's hard, but you can't be a victim if you don't let yourself be one.

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sparklymieow · 09/06/2005 13:01

i know, i know, just not sure how much more i can take

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