Council want to house us opposite paedos!!

[Ilovepugs2017]

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?

Yup, tho I guess I’m just a liar as some people seem to be making out 🤣

Then he's very likely to move on at some point.

How many properties have you turned down so far?

I wish people wouldn’t just assume things.
i can’t work at the moment due to health issues.
people are far too judgemental!

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It's not a risk it's a cast iron guarantee of what will happen. If you can't house your DC and are sleeping rough they'll be taken into care. The housing application is an assessment of your needs, that's when you should have mentioned the sisters ex threatening you. This is a situation where you need to count your blessings. With the rental situation being dire be grateful you've got a home which you can afford and can't be evicted from without good reason. Your other option is to put more effort into securing full time work for you both so you can afford private rental. That's in the future though, for now you need a roof over the DC heads.

No, that makes no sense at all, that’s not how the lettings market works. Why would any landlord need someone to provide a guarantor if they were capable of paying the rent themselves.

Your story has more holes than a Swiss cheese, even leaving aside the hard to believe fact that the two of you simply can’t be bothered to get jobs that let you house your children.

I’m out.

It’s not like I’m just being picky ffs. There is a genuine reason!

Your health issues don't affect you being at college?

Have a look at the agents around this area and see for yourself then 👍🏻

It’s not like I’m just being picky ffs. There is a genuine reason!

But the genuine reason is not the one you're going on about.

I mean a quick glance at your thread title says it all.

So why waste your time at college (and presumably paying for childcare?) when you're too ill to hold down a job?
Such nonsense.
You seem to imagine you're in the driving seat here, op. It beggars belief why.

I’m hardly physically at college. I’ve missed so much time but at least I’m trying to do something!!

And yet you manage to attend college.

And your husband, what, he’s caring for sick relatives half the week?

This can’t be real.

look I’m not here to explain the ins and outs of my life and finances and childcare to some strangers it’s literally veering off the main point of this thread anyway 🤔

I'm not talking about different housing associations I'm talking about different boroughs/towns/areas of the country, call it what you will. Since you said you'd live anywhere, I wondered if you were on the housing list elsewhere

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If there were paedophiles in any of the houses neighbours have told me over the years I'd be the only person on this estate not on the sex offender's register.

It means the neighbours don't like those people.

As for the threat of assault, you are in a much stronger position if you take the council house because if he threatens you again he can lose his property if you report it to the council.

He doesn’t rent a council property his is private

The main point of the thread is that you don't have choices, and have failed to organise your life in a way that might have given you some 🤷🏻‍♀️
Why does your boyfriend only work part time when you have three kids to support?
Your alternative to what the council have offered is homelessness.

At least he has a actual job! Better than nothing. Stop being so judgemental.

Because that’s all he can get at this very moment, he was working full time but got laid off because of covid!!
some job is better than no job at the moment!

With the greatest of respect OP, when I was evicted as a young single Mum after Uni, my priority was for a roof over my head with my son. In my close vicinity for the property offered was (as I subsequent found out) was a brothel, several drug dealers, a councillor later convicted of possession of indecent images of children, and a host of people with various convictions (including my immediate neighbour) who’d served several years at one of Her Majesty’s residences for knocking seven shades of shite out of a copper an was an utter bastard to everyone.

It was my responsibility as a Mum to safeguard my child. It was my civic duty to report any safeguarding issue that involves breaking of the law to the Police (that’s what they’re there for after all).

Yes, it was in a shit area. Yes, it wasn’t near the best schools. Yes, the residents nearby spent more time lounging on their doorsteps with a can of Tennants rather than going to work, or being accompanied in a blue lit taxi after a pork pie & punch up at the local pub.

But god, I was grateful for a secure roof over my child’s head, and that was the most important thing.

Very likely. Tenancy agreements also have clauses about anti social behaviour, annoying neighbours etc.. so complaints to his landlord , especially if backed up by police, would probably result in eviction.

It might not. College doesn't fire you for not showing up or lateness or poor performance. The DWP push ill people into going to college with the threat of sanctions, then say well you went to college no reason you can't work now, as if the two are comparable.

Why would any landlord need someone to provide a guarantor if they were capable of paying the rent themselves.

This isn't bullshit, plenty do, just because. Sometimes their idea of if you can afford the rent is salary of X times the rent, not just salary that covers the rent. If you don't meet their criteria you need a guarantor.