This report follows part one, which you can read here
Through the trials and tribulations of being in “supported accommodation,” through all the having to hold myself back due to housing benefits claims and cost of rent charges (£300-odd pound a week if working), this is where it’s ended up.
Government increases to tax rates for landlords with more than one property means all rents have been increased. Today, a local supported accommodation housing provider has told me that due to an increase in rent charges (which the Local Housing Authority are refusing to meet) that they aren’t being paid any housing benefit.
To further add insult to injury, three houses in the local district, that are owned by the same landlord and used through said supported provider, are being sold.
This now means that the service provider has to rehome six vulnerable adults, including myself, with issues ranging from mental health to addiction.
The service provider has no other houses in the local city – only in the next city. One of the residents who’s needing to be rehomed has been the city for 18 months, maybe a little more, and is trying to build his three-year local connection status to get housed by the council. If he moves out of the city then he loses all he’s built toward his final goal of some sort of stability in life where he’s been pushed from pillar to post.
Where does this struggle end seriously. It’s so easy to see how and why people slip in and out of homelessness.
The Curse of Supported Accommodation (part 2) – Listen Up! Hub
This report follows part one, which you can read here
Through the trials and tribulations of being in “supported accommodation,” through all the having to hold myself back due to housing benefits claims and cost of rent charges (£300-odd pound a week if working), this is where it’s ended up.
Government increases to tax rates for landlords with more than one property means all rents have been increased. Today, a local supported accommodation housing provider has told me that due to an increase in rent charges (which the Local Housing Authority are refusing to meet) that they aren’t being paid any housing benefit.
To further add insult to injury, three houses in the local district, that are owned by the same landlord and used through said supported provider, are being sold.
This now means that the service provider has to rehome six vulnerable adults, including myself, with issues ranging from mental health to addiction.
The service provider has no other houses in the local city – only in the next city. One of the residents who’s needing to be rehomed has been the city for 18 months, maybe a little more, and is trying to build his three-year local connection status to get housed by the council. If he moves out of the city then he loses all he’s built toward his final goal of some sort of stability in life where he’s been pushed from pillar to post.
Where does this struggle end seriously. It’s so easy to see how and why people slip in and out of homelessness.
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