Rincewind Posted 20 July 2015 Posted 20 July 2015 Housing Options are the ones my colleagues have had issues with but once they know the facts and you go in knowing your rights they have to do something. From what I remember from a training session it is 28 days but can vary depending on the urgency.
DANGEROUS TIGER Posted 20 July 2015 Posted 20 July 2015 Many years ago, this happened to me, but I stayed put, and kept the rent to one side, in order to be taken to court for eviction. When a court order was received, the council was obliged to house me, my wife, and young son. This should still be the case, but Citizens Advise would confirm this, or give you relevant advice. Best of luck.
Finnegan Posted 20 July 2015 Posted 20 July 2015 You deliberately got yourself a ccj and eviction for rent arrears? Yeah that'll look great on a housing application. Ken, housing options will process every application regardless. It's their job, it's not because some welfare warrior went in and "forced" them to do something. Most of the people who have a problem with them either haven't filled in a form properly, aren't as eligible as they think they are or are just expecting an unrealistically quick service. In the case of the latter, people complaining their way to the front of the queue and making a big fuss for the Mercury et all aren't helping.
Rincewind Posted 21 July 2015 Posted 21 July 2015 One of my friends was in the office when a client was told there was no room at a hostel. She called them up and they said there was room.I would not call her a welfare warrior. It is true a lot of clients struggle with filling the form in but so do the advisors. My friends have gone over many forms and found errors in the results. There is always a way. Unless you have made yourself intentionally homeless non payment of rent orillegal immigrant for eg they are obliged to find temporary accomomdation and even then if a person is classed as vulnerable they should be found somewhere for a night. I have a guideline to this somewhere which covers all this.
DANGEROUS TIGER Posted 21 July 2015 Posted 21 July 2015 I took legal advice prior to with holding the rent (which I put to one side), and duly took their advice. It worked, and I have no regrets. I had been on the waiting list for ten years, prior to the above.
danny. Posted 21 July 2015 Posted 21 July 2015 Many years ago, this happened to me, but I stayed put, and kept the rent to one side, in order to be taken to court for eviction. When a court order was received, the council was obliged to house me, my wife, and young son. This should still be the case, but Citizens Advise would confirm this, or give you relevant advice. Best of luck. That's a nice thing to do to your landlord
StanSP Posted 21 July 2015 Posted 21 July 2015 working for a Housing Association, the thing that DT did would really fvck us off if it was one of our tenants. Not that they'd care, but it's not easy to get an eviction warrant and it's a very long process. To then actually get a court date and the paperwork prepared for an eviction, only for the tenant to be ready to pay off £1000s worth of debt in one lump sum would really piss us off . FoxFanazer, PM me mate.
oxford blue Posted 21 July 2015 Posted 21 July 2015 If you've not already done so, you must go to the City Council and see a duty officer explaining your 'unintentionally homeless' position; I've assumed it's not due to rent arrears or other 'deliberate' act on your part. suggest you take your tenancy agreement and copy of the (s21?) notice and any other info that's relevant eg evidence of rent paid. By the way, you can't be evicted without a court order, delaying the August date for you to move On the brief info provided, the LA would have to provide you with temporary accommodation whilst a final decision is made on whether you are legally homeless - in which case the LA would have to find you accommodation. Finally, contact the housing benefits section (if you've not already done so) and make a claim for benefit (and council tax reduction/support).
Guest Bob Hazels shorts Posted 23 July 2015 Posted 23 July 2015 I don't know that much other than being a landlord and a relative deals with evictions for a solicitors, so have an interest but no way an expert. All of what has been said seems true. There is not enough social housing to go around, ironically a pal rents to one of the concerns privately who insisted on giving more than he wanted as that's the rate!! Let it become someone else's problem. Hound all of the authorities and sit tight, it will take minimum of 3 months to evict you and be very expensive. If it gets that far, i understand there is an obligation to house you. My brother lived with his family at my Mums and it became too much, he was officially advised to say he had been thrown out and was given B & B followed by a house. Wish you well
Rincewind Posted 9 August 2015 Posted 9 August 2015 Here are a couple of articles regarding social housing. From the Guardian but I dobt this sort of story can be found in the Sun. http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2015/aug/07/housing-asssociation-no-longer-build-homes-poor-genesis?CMP=share_btn_fb This is a court ruling against two councils, one Tory one Labour. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2015/aug/07/victory-for-affordable-housing-as-court-throws-out-insane-government-policy?CMP=share_btn_fb “It’s not just people relying on benefits. The majority of desperate people turning to us for help are hard-working families who simply can’t make ends meet.”
ozleicester Posted 10 August 2015 Posted 10 August 2015 so much advice and help offered in this topic. Well done Foxestalk Hope it all resolves well foxfanzer.
Rincewind Posted 10 August 2015 Posted 10 August 2015 Yes some good advice. As they said in that article sometimes people leave it too late to ask. Whether through pride or just not knowing where to ask it is an increasing problem and the support services and groups are overloaded with cases. The woman with the baby living in one room, how she was classed as not top priority I do not know. Anyone with a child is top of the list regardless. There may have been issues with previous rent which would exempt most people but if there are special circumstances she should have been found somewhere. That is from memory from the course I did so cannot be 100% sure. There is similar stuff available though from housing sites and councils listing the regulations.
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