Hello everyone, some help would be appreciated. I was tortured by a nightmare neighbour until just before Christmas. My GP became involved after several attempts to stop my neighbour banging my ceiling failed and I became ill. I moved at short notice but I was happy to be away from this guy. Unfortunately I ended up in a worse situation. My new neighbour is worse. Imagine a big house converted into two flats. I'm in the top flat and my neighbour is in the bottom flat. To get to my flat I have to go in a "communal" front door. 3ft in front of the front door is another door leading into my neighbours flat. Well more or less every time I passed his door I would hear comments about me and/or intentional banging. I would often hear my neighbour behind his door hammering away for an hour. Then soon as I go into the garden he is in his garden staring at me.
In the end I was assaulted by my neighbour in the communal area. I was pushed and hit my head. My neighbour was arrested. Days before all this my neighbour had made a lot of noise and I think even pushed my bench over...sooo I opened my door and said give it a rest. FINALLY my neighbour got his wish !! I reacted to him !! and I guess this meant he could have a go at me face to face. He was certainly up my stairs in a flash that day. I managed to slam my door shut though. Thats when the screaming and shouted and door bashing started. I should have called police but instead called my landlord and also pressed record on laptop webcam. Anyway after making a lot of noise my neighbour left. A while later I left too. I called 101 and spoke to police. They didn't do anything there and then. I had two days on a friends sofa before I returned to my flat and basically got attacked within 10 seconds of opening the door.
FOR ONE MONTH AND COUNTING I HAVE BEEN PAYING RENT TO LIVE IN A SOHA TENT. My housing association landlord took my rent and left me living in a tent. I have no change of clothes. No proper was facilities. Its terrible.
My landlord hasn't done anything to help me. Nothing to prevent homelessness. In fact today they told me to go to the council and register homeless. Surely they can transfer me from one flat to another. I bet they have loads of properties on their books. They must know when one will be available. I believe the computer game they invented called bidding was created just to keep people away from council staff...but the computer doesn't decide who the winner of a new home is. A so called human being in an office decides who wins a new home. Joe public doesn't think much about any of it. They bid for a flat, and they come 10th. Annoying but thats it. They come 10th. Even those that come first but don't get offered a place to live don't get near enough to a council employee to strangle them !!!
Anyways my landlord seems to have told a CAB advisor they will REHOUSE ME IN FEW WEEKS..but go register HOMELESS because when I do I will get temp accommodation for 56 days ??? !! Go register homeless seems bad advice ??? Its all confusing. Do you think they are saying they will offer me a property whatever happens ?? before the 56 days are up ?? I wonder if a few weeks is more or less than 56 days ???
Do you think they are saying I won't need to bid ?? They will direct offer me somewhere ??
I don't think any of what they say is true ???? does anyone know what will happen if I went to the council and told them I was homeless due to violence/fear of violence ??? My landlord would get their flat back...and wash their hands of me ??? I would end up sleeping rough because the council will find me intentionally homeless ?? or I might end up in temp housing for a long time ??
Handing over the keys to a housing association property, going homeless, bidding on a housing association flats...seems, well, really strange. Leave my landlords flat to bid on flats advertised by my landlord..ummm !!
The police ended up releasing my neighbour without charging him with anything. They said its always going to be my word against my neighbours word and vice versa. I'm not sure why my laptop recording wasn't enough evidence to charge him with threatening behaviour or criminal damage. Everyone I show it to agrees it was intense and agrees it is unreasonable to expect me to live there. Passing his door safely is unsafe. Two incidents happened regardless of what can and can't be proved. There was a report of the news the other day which stated police are failing victims of harassment and stalking. I think the police probably could do more to help people experiencing these life altering problems. There are far too many criminals committing crime and getting away Scott free. Way too many abusers abusing.
I'm not willing to risk aggression violence harassment anymore that's for sure. All of this is taking its toll though. Not sure what to do for the best either.
I need something in writing but they have been fairly good at avoiding questions and really good at not giving a straight answer. Even questions asked by my MP don't appear to be answered yet !!
My landlord misquoted the law and said they can't rehouse me. They have left me to become ill. They have contributed to my worsening mental and physical health. I can't trust them. They really don't care about my welfare or well being. At one stage they were saying they would rehouse me but it takes time. I said this was urgent and then said this that the other during a depressed spell. Soha head of housing replied telling me suicide threats won't get you moved any faster. I was disgusted to think someone dealing with disadvantaged people and possibly with people that have health problems would imply I (or anyone) would threaten to end everything to blackmail a new flat. I told the head of housing he was correct, a threat does very little to help, but actually successfully committing suicide would get a person moved fast and permanently. I think the way they have handled the whole mess is disgusting. I'm waiting for an autism diagnosis and find all this a hard to get my head around. Late 30's and its been a long wait. Autistic or not this homelessness rubbish isn't good or recommended !! (and I'm not even officially homeless. yet)
If anyone can offer any advice or just wants to comment, please do. Be nice to hear what you think and suggest. I just dont understand how I got here, so getting out of here is going to be a real pain in the butt !!
thanks in advance to anyone that replies...cheers