Housing Association

[STP]

Do they automatically transfer you to a bigger house if you are classed as overcrowded? X

 

[Jaxx01]

Nope you have to wait in our system we have to his and the longer you wait the more priority you have! My friend has 4 kids in a two bed house and has been overcrowded for 4 years and still not moved x

 

[STP]

Thats terrible. There are 3 of us at the moment in a 3 bed house. So i'm gonna really panic when I do fall pregnant. X

 

[Jaxx01]

What two adults and one child? If that's the case even if you had one more child or even two, in a 3 bed house they won't class that as overcrowded as the children can share roomsxx

 

[STP]

My stepchild is nearly 10 so hopefully by the time i'm pregnant and gave birth he will nearly be a teenager! They can't think that's practical surely? X

 

[Pudds86]

In ours you can only move if you go on the swapping site or apply again x

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[Jaxx01]

In a three bedroom house they will see that you and your partner would have one room, you stepchild another and baby in third room. If you had another child after that it could share until the eldest one of the two is about 8/9 I think. You wouldn't be overcrowded x

 

[Pudds86]

^ this is true

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[STP]

I'm in a two bed house now. Got confused with 3 people at min! X

 

[STP]

Bump

 

[Pudds86]

Does it depend if the children are different sex?

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[redbear]

in my area two kids can share a room until 14 before they say you need another room so with two kids and us we are entitled to a two bedroom and its not overcrowded x

 

[redbear]

and it doesn't matter if there a different sex anymore it used to but its changed in my area anyway x

 

[Jaxx01]

I just looked it up, in my area if they are same sex they can share till 16, different sex 10! X

 

[redbear]

just looked it up jaxx you where right im wrong i must have been told wrong lol x

 

[Jaxx01]

Each one varies but I'm stuffed anyway, been waitin for 4 years and then they changed the rules and got rid of the band I'm in!!! Lol xx

 

[redbear]

god that's crappy. we private rent from my mum and dad so not too bad because when there three bed comes up for rent we will move there but the tenants in that house have lived there about 7 years so doubt they will move anytime soon although they told my mum a couple years ago they want a morgage. my mum and dad wouldn't ever ask them to leave though because there such good tenants it would be like throwing it back in there face. private seems the only way to do it now as council houses are so hard to get. x

 

[Jaxx01]

Tbh I don't mind private ATM as I'm in a nice location, I love my flat and if I got anywhere it would be at the top of a high rise probably and I wouldn't want that x

 

[STP]

Flipping eck x

 

[siouxie]

I think it depends on the area and how much housing is available. One of my friends that live in derby got housed before her baby arrived in a lovely 2 bed house with a garden as her mum's would be over crowded when the baby arrived. But my cousin who lives in west London isbin a one bed flat with herself the dad and 2 kids they are in band c which is about a 10 year waiting list in my area.