How long are council housing waits for growing families?

[99Samblaze]

Hi
We moved to a one bedroom flat in Stockport a year ago. I had my son and now expecting again near Christmas. How long did people wait to get a council house of flat.
We can’t afford a two bedroom flat on the private market so having council house would help a lot.

Thank you

If he has no recourse to public funds then that includes social housing, as its publicly funded. If you are a UK citizen then you can apply but he can't hold a tenancy with a registered social landlord because again that's publicly funded.

Agree

EXACTLY this. We really need to change our ways of thinking. Social housing was built at scale in the post war years to replace bombed houses and sub standard slum housing. It was intended to be secure, affordable housing for working class people, not a safety net. We need to be building much, much more.

Agree. I grew up a New Town which was like that. It's not a fantasy, it's a living memory and it could be like that again.

I wasn’t really replying to the OP and elsewhere on the thread have told her she realistically has no chance.
i was pointing out to others who have posted calling her grabby, entitled and taking off the taxpayer that these views are new(ish) attitudes to social housing (God, was the mid 80s really 40 years ago!!!) and that before that she would have been entitled to such housing, as were many others, until building slowed and attitudes changed.

You can't justify paying rent to landlords but you can justify other people's taxes (landlords included) to be used to house your family so you can save!!!!!
Seriously?

This

Which is why tenancies should not be given for life.

I have done my teaching training just need to do the ECT which lasts for two years. It will be harder now with two babies so I am plannng to go back to full time work once the kids hits two or goes school. I just would like a council house to ease off the expenses for bit.

Thank you.
I am being heavily criticised but they seem to be ok with millionaires and billionaires dodging tax all the time and investors buying up all the properties in Britain as well as foreign investors who has never set foot in UK.

Thank you I will tell him that.

I will put it under my name as I am British.

So it's not really council house advice you want. It's government policy change ? Although Labour do say they are/will build more.

You could move into politics perhaps.

To buy one bedroom flat would be possible in ten years if I go back to work which is u likely but two bedroom flats are so expensive and to be honest I have had enough of flats. I grew up in a big house and rented a house with multiple people in the past and right now having a tiny space is affecting my mental health as I am mostly home to look after my baby. I try to go outside as much as stay away from shopping places as we are cutting down drastically. I still miss having a garden.

What did he or she say?
I can’t seem to find the comment anywhere unless it’s been reported.

Move to a cheaper part of Stockport. South Manchester is expensive for what it is.
I wouldn’t normally make this kind of comment but your writing isn’t really very clear for someone who is a teacher.

your fun around parties aren’t you

It’s because Glasgow has taken in more ‘economic migrants’ than any other place in the UK.
Of course migrants/governments for letting them in are to blame for lack of housing, nhs waiting lists, GP/dentist availability etc.
What do you think is the issue? Council houses were sold- but they didn’t dissapear. They still house people.
The population was stable then over a short space of time it’s grown by over 15% -what do you think happens?

We would love burnage but burnage is very expensive. I also want my son to go to good schools. My brother has to travel everyday from Gorton to Fallowfield for his daughter’s school. He works from home so for him it is ok.

We want to be close to Fallowfield so when I eventually go back to work my mum can pick them up from school. It will make things a lot easier if I was close to family they do help out sometimes with babysitting.

We were thinking of Longsight too but I would want my son to be in an area that is diverse not to say Longsight isn’t.

Point proven.

OP. A poster explained the quote button a few pages back. So you can quote the person you are responding to. It might be a good idea to use it so the thread flows better.

You are going to be a teacher after all. So being understood is important.

He has to pay extra for goods and transit. He has to get that otherwise his job will sack him. He also passed his driving last year and year before that he came to UK.

This. Before they sold them all off it was normal to live in a council house there was no stigma in it. People got married and were given a council house as there were so many available. All of my DH exstended family lived in them and we had friends who were older than us they all lived in them too. Now there are hardly any left.

Correct. Which is why a lot of this post so far is strange. I'm not going to accept that someone who wants social housing because its comparatively cheaper hasn't checked whether or not they're entitled to means tested benefits. And I actually think this post is either ill thought out or baity. To say you don't want to put money in a landlords pocket because SH might be cheaper but, unplanned or not, how many children you have is ultimately your responsibility, is going to upset a lot of people who have no option but to pay market rent or mortgage payments to house themselves.

I am not asking for handouts. I just asked a question about social housing to people who are on social housing or know about it. Jeeeezz