We're currently dealing with a section 21 eviction notice (non fault) - ending early Feb. Since finding out we have gone through almost all of our available options, it is so much harder to rent now from 4years prior, when we moved into this property.
I'm on maternity leave (I had a baby beginning of lockdown 1 & another 19m later) with no role to go back to as business collapsed due to Covid. This means I am claiming UC.
I have applied for many remote working roles, as funding 2 under 3 to attend nursery long enough for me to work is wild! Nothing has come along yet.
We reluctantly applied for council to protect the children but I am so incredibly anxious. Has anyone got any true experience of applying for council? Roughly how long it took? Anything that isn't a horror story really, as we have been advised to ignore the date of eviction, stay until we are housed (even when bailiffs / removal by force is threatened and report it as it all aids our case & moved us up the priority list) - a lovely added bonus is that our landlord is our next door neighbour, the contention & awkwardness I can already feel from this whole drama is causing me to lose sleep.
We have a deposit, my DH works full time, but no one (as of yet) will touch us with UC without a guarantor- whom needs to be solely earning over 35k annually.. both of my parents are just under that. Leaving us truly with no other option.
So yeah, just after some truths on what the council housing experience is like? Thank you