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StaceyRawr19 On October 21, 2009




Sc***horpe, United Kingdom
#1New Post! Oct 19, 2009 @ 23:07:07
I'm 26 weeks pregnant, me and my partner applied for a council house nearly 3 months ago now.
They started me off with 90 points, i get 5 points for every month i'm waiting and they said when i get 100 points then i will be high priority in getting a house.

About a week ago i went into the council housing place and asked how many points i had just to make sure, the woman there said i had 100 but it's highly doubtful we'd be placed in a house until way after the baby is born as they are too busy re-placing people who are living in flats with 2+ children, even though i'm getting kicked out of my house in a month!

She also said we're more likely to be placed quicker if we change our application to say we'd accept a flat. Most of the flats are in the rough parts of sc***horpe so if we we're to choose a flat it would be our last option.


I then looked into renting a house but my partner doesn't want to as he says "The house is technically not ours, they can give us a month notice on moving out so we'd have to try and find somewhere else to go"


I'm stressing out about having to find a place to live, which is really not good for the baby.

Any advice please?
hedkandi1984_21 On July 23, 2013




London, United Kingdom
#2New Post! Oct 19, 2009 @ 23:12:35
I personally think your partner's not thinking realistically. If the council can't say you will definitely have something to live by the time the baby's due, you need to look at alternatives.
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