How to get a council house -C4

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Anyone watching? It's so depressing. So many zero hours contracts and racist rants.

Oh ok fair enough then I perhaps missed that bit

Bloody hell thats shocking then that they would actually admit to lying

But then people are desperate for a home aren't they

Asprilla The council were shocking "If you're such a good friend why don't you do the right thing and put your friend up for the evening?" How can anyone think that is an appropriate thing to say!

This is typical. Mental health services do the same, IME it's a major contributing reson to friends disappearing when the shit hits the fan. Another overstretched service desperately trying to discharge responsiblity...

Another issue with the way housing is allocated is the way it's so all-or-nothing. Using my own situation as an example, when I was homeless I just wanted a place in a hostel until I found a room to rent (young, single, no DC). That was not possible - because the system only allows for full responsibility (council finds home) or no duty to help you at all. Many councils have provided hostels etc for those they don't legally have to, but it's obviously not guaranteed. At the same time, there was someone in the hostel (I was temporaily in whilst they made a decision on eligibility) who was pretending to have split with her partner in order to get a council house. She told me. She had DC so wasn't obliged to look for anywhere, safe in the knowledge the council would have to house them. Though I know of someone else who did this too, gave up waiting in the end and rented privately...
Weirdly these rules permeated into the attitudes of hostel staff - they couldn't do enough for thosewith DC but were obviously hostile to the few without, like they felt they shouldn't really be there or something. The way they treated my younger (17yrs old) friend when she had to leave home the day her violent dad got out of jail was disgusting.

The rules changed (atleast in my area) now when your in temporary accommodation the council don't have to house you but they have to find you somewhere to live, so they could find you a private place (never happened here yet as far as I know though as private places renting to housing benefit are gold dust around here)

I thought the 21 year olds mum said that she was lying about kicking him out not about him having care of the kids?

Yes she said she was lying when she said she would make them leave.

The Mould and damp was awful

No one should be allowed to live like that

Why don't people have tenancy agreements? Coz no one else will rent to them so they take what /who they can?

All seem to live very untidily - yes the places are small but their belongings are everywhere in the homes (and I use home loosely)

The are probably too poor to visit Ikea for storage solutions.

Exactly. If there's little integral storage AND your entire life is in a small space, that results in a mess.