'Natty, the council wont put you on a waiting list? You are overcrowded surely?
What about housing associations?'
Natty, I REALLY, REALLY feel for you, hon.
AND, empathies.
Charlie, in some places, like Edinburgh - the second most expensive place in the UK for cost of living in relation to income - the waiting list is a BIG joke.
How much of a joke here? Try over 157,000 sitting on it.
They sold over 200,000 properties in right to buy. NONE were allowed to be replaced.
Overcrowding. Haahaahaa. My social worker friend finally got a client re-housed. This lady has one leg. She was living in a 3rd floor one-bed flat with her husband and three children.
The only reason they finally got rehoused is b/c they were nearly murdered in a case of mistaken identity.
And where they are now, man, it's not nice. It does have a lift, however.
Another case in the paper in the past six months was a woman whose husband stabbed her multiple times. She was put on the priority list. Only to be offered a home in the same tower where he lived, on remand before his trial. She had to get her MSP involved to get her housed elsewhere. Then two weeks ago, the case of the disabled man stuck in hospital, fit to leave since November, w/no suitable accommodation available for him and his carer.
Edinburgh is a virtuoso at hiding its pockets of staggeringly deep poverty.
Yes, we both work and are always skint.
Tax credits? We racked up £3000 worth of debt to avoid becoming homeless after they cocked up, demanded repayment of 'overpayment' and left us to live on £13,000/pa. Before tax and NI. With a two-year-old.
And I was pregnant.
Only w/my MSP, MP, a welfare advisoer and GP intervening - b/c I had to go see a psychiatrist I got so depressed -were we able to sort it.
Imagine if we hadn't had the strength or will to fight?