Had a reply from the council saying that due to Covid 19 all allocation of housing is suspended. The only people they are housing are people they have a duty to house such as homeless, people in sheltered housing, street sleepers and overcrowded. They told me this months ago but this bungalow has now been empty since a few days before lockdown back in March! remember that my daughter is in the Priority Band.
We have children going back to school, we can eat out, go to pubs, go to the gym, buy and sell houses, move house but social housing has ground to a halt. I just can’t understand it. The only houses appearing on their sites (to bid on) are sheltered housing properties.
I have emailed our MP telling him all this and asking him to look into this as there must be houses all over our district where elderly people die or go into care leaving properties empty like this one and people like my daughter could be living in them and paying rent.
Two properties I know of have gone to homeless people and someone who lives in the block has told me they are never there and she doesn’t see them for weeks on end. What a complete and utter waste to allocate houses to people who prefer living rough and then we are all paying for it anyway.
We have children going back to school, we can eat out, go to pubs, go to the gym, buy and sell houses, move house but social housing has ground to a halt. I just can’t understand it. The only houses appearing on their sites (to bid on) are sheltered housing properties.
I have emailed our MP telling him all this and asking him to look into this as there must be houses all over our district where elderly people die or go into care leaving properties empty like this one and people like my daughter could be living in them and paying rent.
Two properties I know of have gone to homeless people and someone who lives in the block has told me they are never there and she doesn’t see them for weeks on end. What a complete and utter waste to allocate houses to people who prefer living rough and then we are all paying for it anyway.