Moulder86

Well I went down to the council today took in my application and they said that I'd need to call their housing advice line as I wouldn't be housed by the 31st March (I didn't think I would neway).

So I came home and called them but they said my only choice was to really rent privately and get help with my rent but the most I'd get at the moment would be £72 and it would only be for a shared property.

I'd have to wait untill after the babies birth to privately rent a two bed place and get more financial help. But theres not chance my mum n dad are going to have me stay around for another 4/5 months expecially once the babies born.

How can they happily house drunks, non working foreign people and not help someone who is not in this situation through choice. I don't know what the hell I'm going to do!! Without being rude, I'm so FUCKING angry!! ARGH

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vickilouise

i used to work for my local council in the housing dept. its all rules and regulations, it is true they wont pay housing benefit for rooms you dont need so if you got a privately rented house/flat now that was 2 bed they'd only pay for 1 and if it had say living room and dinning room they wouldnt pay for the dinning room as its not a necesity. i dont know how your local council works but where i worked when your pregnant you go to top priority as the stress of having nowhere to live can be blamed for m/c and what local council would want a headline like that about them or a court case.
once they have your mat b1 certificate they should put you in top priority.
i will advise you though when they suggest shared housing again ask them if they have children, if they would have a newborn in a shared house, and if they are willing to CRB check everyone who lives there as you do not want your child in unessarcary risk.

dont back down hound them everyday if you can.

the end of the day a vast majority of people (scumbags) know how to work the system ie what to say and who to and normal people like you and myself would have to get wise so to speak to get anywhere.as they say sh*t floats. dont back down though and make you situation out as destitute as you can even if you had one of your parents writting a letter to say you have got x amount of months to stay and then your out on your arse.

good luck anyway

lorrilou

I know exactly how you feel, when i was pregnant with nicole we were living in a private rented flat and i would of been 5 months pregnant when the lease ran out and i didnt want to renew lease as i had been laid off from work and didnt want to be stuck having to pay rent on a flat that i might not be living in (if the council gave me a house). Anyways, i moved back home to mum and dad, who at the time lived in a 3bed house with 4 kids (not including me). So as you can imagine it was very cramped. When i told the council about my change of circumstances they basically said it was my own fault as i had made myself "homeless".

They finally gave me somewhere to live, 2 weeks before nicole was due, we moved in 2 days before she was due!!! What really pissed me off tho, was that a couple of our friends, who already lived in a two bed flat with their son were given a house before us.

Its so shit how they do things. We are living in a small 2bed house at the moment (no room to swing a cat) and ive put in for a transfer for a bigger house, and the annoying thing is there is atleast 2 3bed houses on my street with only one person living in them. Now how unfair is that!!!

Moulder86

It's stupid, I don't understand how people who get put into council housing with alcohol problems or immigrants get the housing in the first place when theres people like us who really need it.

It gets me REALLY flippin angry.

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anita665

We were told similar. We already live in a privatly rented 2 bed flat but my parter has no steady job since he quit in November so we have pretty much nothing coming in till he can find something. We get help with the rent but they only pay just over half of it which means soon we will completely run out of money & end up behind on the rent. We were told we coould get more once baby is here. I was thinking it isn't really good enough. When you have a baby you want to be settled before baby arrives!! If you were living in shared accomodation and had a baby I don't think it would go down very well!!