Council / social housing - how long did you wait?

[Anniepiee]

Hi

Just put out of interest... how long did you wait for a permanent house?

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Hi its hard to say. It depends on what council you are under . What banding your in and what accommodation your in at the moment. Also the situation on why you are waiting on social housing.

I was about 4 months but you are talking 15 years ago and band b so quite high priority.

Will be following - I have been placed into Band C which I intend to request a review of, but they seem quite sure I will get a house in around 3 years. I don’t believe that’s true and reckon unless you are in band A or B you have no chance really.

I am in Milton Keynes.

This is my local council waiting list .

Thank you... I was just interested to hear other people's stories

2.5 years, Norwich.

I'm a GP in an outer London borough and they wrote to us a few years ago to ask for our help in managing expectations. Basically 5-10 years if you're in the top band, if not then never.

I consider myself extraordinarily fortunate to be offered a house for life after 4 months on the housing register.

In my area it depends on which areas of choice you have down. If you pick the whole city then it's quicker than if you have juts 3 or 4 areas selected (I appreciate that sometimes you just can't pick more areas due to risk or specific support etc)

I can't believe they wrote '154 years'

6 weeks. I applied to my housing association directly though.
sometimes they put houses up outside of waiting lists. I applied. Got a decision a week later then had to wait 5 weeks for the house to be ready. ( repairs from previous tenant and them emptying it)

3 months from applying to getting the keys, 7 years ago.
But I took a place that no one else wanted, speaking to neighbours the longest anyone has lived here is 2 years.
It's in a village with some anti social behaviour issues, crap parking and not even a shop, except a fast food place which is why there's parking and anti social behaviour issues at times.

If I hadn't taken this place then I'd have probably been waiting a lot longer, although the area I live in does seem to be one with lower waiting lists anyway.

I can't remember what band I was in but I was a single parent who was sofa surfing after leaving an abusive relationship, and working full time and no benefits - which apparently the HA wanted for some of the properties they own.

Tbh I think they are as grateful I took it and have stayed here as I was to be offered it, they're getting rent for a place consistently that they haven't before and I've got a secure home.

Sounds about right. I'm also in an outer a London borough and registered myself as homeless a year ago due to domestic abuse. The council has an obligation to rehouse me within 50-something days. They told me to look for private accommodation because if I left it to them, they'd be housing me about 100 miles away. I work in the borough so that would have been useless because I would not have been able to get to work.

Yeah putting 154 years makes me think they are just making up the whole thing up and makes me not take them seriously.

My dd was in band 1 and got housed with her first bid. The band 3 is for homless families/people in temporary accommodation. Band 4 is for people already housed but over crowded by 1 room.

I work for a national HA. We have properties in Manchester, all the way down to Milton keynes, Wellingborough, London, Bristol, Wiltshire, Cornwall, Brighton etc. 75,000 properties in all.

In general Band C and below are studio-1 bed up to 4 years, 2 beds 5 years, 3 beds 7 years, 4+ 15 years if you're lucky as they're rarer than rocking horse shit.

However, London and 3+ beds is more like decades so I can believe 154 years for a 5+ bed.