Council want to house us opposite paedos!!

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I’ll try and cut a long story short.
We are at risk of homelessness due to our landlord wanting to sell. Our section 21 ran out in July.
we have been bidding on properties every week with no luck.
The council bid on a property on our behalf in our local area (for personal reasons I didn’t bid on this particular property - issues with threats of assault from someone living on the same street as the one advertised).
anyway we were no.2 in the queue and couldn’t withdraw the bid which gave me huge anxiety. I’d even emailed the housing officer to say I didn’t bid for personal reasons.
2 weeks later which is today they have called and offered us the property. They have said if we refuse to take it they will help us no further!!
my partner has been to speak to a couple of the neighbours and they have said to be warned that a couple of convicted paedos live opposite the back entrance!

we have three young children how is this acceptable?
Im going to refuse the house and appeal!
anxiety is through the roof!! :(
anyone been through similar?

And how exactly do you think they could police that?

Basically he’s decided to sell the property so wants us out.
we had our section 21 in may for 2 months notice which ended in July.
Now the next step is for them to apply to the courts for eviction. Not sure if they have done this yet as we haven’t heard anything. My guess is they’re gonna wait until they have a buyer because at the minute we are still essentially paying their mortgage.

Two convicted paedophiles and someone who has threatened to assault you. All coincidentally living on the same street. Seems like pretty bad luck OP.

Then your partner needs to start working full-time and you need to find an evening and / or weekend job, or even drop out of college and work full-time until you get settled somewhere new.

You really don’t have an option of having only one of you working part-time and then claiming that you can’t afford a home and insisting the council bend over backwards to meet your needs.

Yes I see where your coming from. Just hoping they’ll see why I cannot accept that property in particular. I will literally take anything apart from this. Just don’t want any risk to come to me or my children

Sorry to break this to you but there's a high chance you are related to/friends with paedophiles and you're not even aware of it. If you're taking precautions with your children's safety as any parent should it's not even an issue. It's actually an advantage to know where they are.

In student let’s it’s because the tenant has no (or little) income.

In normal lets it’s not usual.

Yes, can't disagree with any of this.

I see.

No he doesn’t know where I live right now

Are you sure there’s not also a drug den and a brothel on the street, OP?

And yet you know where he lives. Odd.

I’ve told the support worker for the council who then told the housing officer and he basically said it’s tough now he can’t do anything as he has to follow procedures

Then deal with your anxiety, that's the real problem. How do you know the neighbors telling the truth about paedophiles? You haven't even bothered to seek out the facts before getting stressed about it. Maybe it's not true. Maybe the neighbors don't like children and tell any family looking at the place it's surrounded by paedophiles so they don't move in. Do you know for sure the person who threatened you still lives in this street and have you specifically told the council about it? Saying "personal reasons" won't cut it. You should have told them all about it at the housing application stage ideally.

Why have you let it get to this stage and not just both of you got a job that lets you put a secure roof over your children’s heads though?

I can’t see how you are eligible for any council housing at all if one of you is choosing not to work at all and the other is only working part time.

All of your problems would be solved straight away if you got a job and your husband went full-time.

Erm yes because he was my sisters ex?? I dropped her off at his house a few times!Seriously what is your problem?

Bet you would turn down an 8th floor tower block flat for "reasons" as well.

All the councils houses in our borough are combined. So properties that are up to an hour away are all listed on the same website through different housing associations etc. I’ve bid on loads so it’s not like I’m just being picky…

Take the house, if any issues call the police and the council. I’m assuming he also a council tenant? If he harasses you or your family then he’d be evicted.

All the properties where I live need guarantors. All landlords let through letting agents and I haven’t yet found one that will rent us a property without a guarantor. My parents have even said they’ll lend us some money to offer an extra bond in replacement for guarantor but nowhere will accept that either. We are just stuck.

Also my partner didn’t pay a bond as the landlord didn’t ask for one at the time as he knew him.

God I wish I could expect to be comfortable, free of anxiety for myself, free of anxieties relating to my children, have three kids, be in college, have a boyfriend who works part time, be facing homelessness and STILL moan that the council isn’t housing me to my satisfaction.

Fuck me OP. You need to grow up. Yes some shit is shit, but you are facing HOMELESSNESS WITH THREE KIDS.

I think if I were at risk of homelessness with my three children and was unhappy with the offers of accommodation made by the council, I might consider that college and part-time work were luxuries that neither my partner or I could afford to entertain right now.

Also, you mentioned the paedos living across from the back entrance - does that mean they actually live on a different street that happens to back onto your new street? Maybe put your kids in the front bedrooms, get good curtains up at all the back windows, and ensure the kids are always appropriately clothed and supervised in your new garden. You’ll probably say that it’s a breach of the childrens human rights not to be able to run around in a paddling pool in the summer, but I think emergency accommodation would be more traumatic for them.

I think he’s privately renting

I don’t have the answers 😕