housing??

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• Hollys_mummy

  Jul 15, 2008 3:47AM

  hiya hun,
  Maybe try posting this in the baby forum I know one of the girls is a housing officer for one of the councils so she would be the best one to advise you but I deffo think they will have to move you xxx

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• lisabby

  Jul 15, 2008 12:22PM

  I dont know how the council works in your area, there al different, but i ended up having to get a private let because i was living with my mum, sharing a room with my 10 year old sister, my brother who was 15 had his own room, and he has ADHD and very violent, i had letters from MW and from his specialist doctors saying it wasnt safe for me to be in the house with a new baby never mind sharing a room with a new born and a 10year old, but no i was still on a 5 and a half year waiting list so i did have to scrimp and save to get the deposit and first months rent for a private let, sorry cant be much help but your best chance would be citizens advice
  
  xxlisaxx

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• jennybean

  Jul 17, 2008 10:30AM

  I really do sympathise with you as I am in a similiar situation myself, I am 20 years old and currently staying with my sister who is housing herself, husband, 2 children aged 2 and 9, my mother and myself in a 3 bedroom house and the council are fobbing me off.
  
  Emma Lou 85 - completely correct - there are plenty of foriegn families being housed and somehow I think I may have lived in the country longer! Sorry - I dont mean this as a moan about them its our governments fault not theirs
  
  Anyway I think its a good idea for your midwife to have posted a letter to them, have you sent a confirmation of pregancy letter? I was toldto do this and I think it gives you more points. CAB good idea, they may let you know of any outside help that could intervene?
  
  Do not stop contacting them, annoy them all the time, if you stay quiet they will forget about you so make your voice heard!
  
  Chin up xxx
  
  Jenny )

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• mms

  Jul 18, 2008 5:20PM

  hi
  
  thanks have made an appointment with cab next week x

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• Lambchop80

  Jul 23, 2008 3:41PM

  Hi,
  
  I work in housing and we come across this every day !
  
  You are definantly overcrowded, but they wont usually take into account the twins until they are actually born (crazy I know).
  
  Plus you would need at least a big house probably more than 3 bedrooms and those properties are so rare. Our waiting list for a 3 bed is eleven years upwards !
  
  Hope the cab helped you, but of course the biggest obsticle is simply if the council dont have the house free to offer you then they cant move you; and people in these homes just dont leave them (even when they're no longer needed) as where else are you gonna find a 3 bed house for ??90 a week (or less!)
  

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• mms

  Jul 23, 2008 4:11PM

  hi
  
  we pay ??70 a week for a 2bed flat lol.
  
  we have got a social worker involed and to day she rang housing and they have told her we will be re-housed befor babies are born.
  
  social worker has stated they need to re-house very soon as i cannot be moving when im 8mths gone lol,so we will see.
  
  mandyx

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• charliemummy

  Jul 26, 2008 1:09PM

  hia,
  me, my partner and our 3month old baby will be homeless in 2days. we have been on the council housing list for over a year and they knew about our tenancy ending 3months before it ended. they have told me that theres knowhere we can go and that there isnt any emergency housing places we could go to. when i told them that we will be homeless they told me that they would have somewhere for us when we have to be out of our house and not to bother looking for a privatly rented place (which we couldnt afford anyway) so basically we have to live on the streets because they told us they'd have somewhere for us and they havent. i am now desperatly looking for flats but evan if i did find one now we still wouldnt get it in 2days. im so pissed off with them because we have a 3month old son and have to live on the streets. we cant evan stay at parents either.

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