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Terrible housing situation

Hello, please can you offer some help on my housing situation. I am seriously and chronically unwell. I am waiting to be housed. However, the Council will not accept that I have and need a two bedroom because I have a full-time carer overnight. I have submitted assessments, consultant letters. Pip awards. Carer statements. I have been and am being put through hell. Which has made my health and mental health so severe. Attempts on my life and self-harm. My conditions are in flare-ups and no matter what more I give they ignore every aspect of my life with having a stroke, disablement and multiple and chronic illnesses. I am being subjected to awful treatment and the whole department are ignoring my medical and factual needs. Please, can you or Scope help me?
I have contacted Sam and a few times, as Housing is her chose and specialist field, but I have not had response. I can't live and continue to be treated like this much longer. Please can you or someone help me.
Kindest Regards
Charlie
I have contacted Sam and a few times, as Housing is her chose and specialist field, but I have not had response. I can't live and continue to be treated like this much longer. Please can you or someone help me.
Kindest Regards
Charlie
Replies
- The charity Shelter England have a helpline for people feeling overwhelmed by their housing situation. Find out more and contact them here.
- Shelter also have a page explaining how to challenge Council Housing decisions, which may be relevant for your situation.
- I'm not sure where you're based, but your Local Authority may also have contact details for local organisations who can support you.
- Perhaps your GP could provide further evidence as to why you need a full-time carer and your second bedroom?
- If none of the above are suitable, it might be worth contacting the Scope helpline team at 0808 800 3333 to see if there's anything else they could recommend.
Hope this helps- best of luck!
I will try and get more evidence, my consultants outrank my GP just because I have 10 of them under 5 hospitals that I have to be treated under. So they know the full in and out if that makes sense. I issued these and more to the Council and they are still ignoring the medical documentation. I can not understand why I am faced with such hostility and disregard. I would like to call Scope. My word does not hold concern or weight. I was accused of "misleading" the council for "gain". I can not describe what this has done to me and affected me so greatly that while battling with having incurable illnesses, a stroke that was caused by a epidural that should not have been conducted on me and now having permanent nerve damage. Having to do indescribable and degrading self-procedures just to go to the bathroom. That someone would be accused of fabricating the traumatising details of how I now have to live with having no real sense of life.
My MP has ignored me for two years. I have called and sent hundreds of Emails. Just to be ignored because I dont seem to matter.
Thank you for trying for me.
Charlie x
You are on a transfer list with your current provider who are only putting you as needing a one bedroom? Although needing a room for an overnight carer is a valid reason for having an extra bedroom it is up to your council if they will offer you a larger property. The only other advice I can offer is what you have presumably heard before, if you were to exchange your property with another tenant who has two bedrooms you might find your council or another provider will allow that. Other than that you have been offered some good advice in the thread that might open other avenues for you . I wish you luck
On a more positive note I would suggest you get some sort of sofa-bed to allow you to get around the problem rather than insisting on an extra bedroom at least for the time being. By all means continue to push for it but get into somewhere for now and thus alleviate some of the pressures on you.
TK