We live in a 1 bed house how can we get help 2get the council to move us our son 1yr0ver and daughter 2months?

like i said we need help we are in a one bed house with 2 kids girl and a boy our little girl is nearly our off there mosses and she needs to go into a cot but we dont have room to put one please help usWe live in a 1 bed house how can we get help 2get the council to move us our son 1yr0ver and daughter 2months?
it takes a lot of effort


but you have to go to the council everyday and complain your house is now overcrowded


eventually they'll get tired of you coming and give you what you want.


demand you see a housing list and prove that you wont get off their back, most people do, thats why they don't show any sympathy at first. But keep at it, phone up, and go in, write letters, just dont stop bugging them at all!!!We live in a 1 bed house how can we get help 2get the council to move us our son 1yr0ver and daughter 2months?
It might be a good idea to widen your search out a bit by looking at the private rental sector. You may be entitled to the new Local Housing Allowance if you are in the UK, which should be enough for you to rent a three bed property. Alternatively, have you tried the housing associations? They should be listed in Yellow Pages, and your Local Authority Housing Department should also have a list of them. My own Local Authority houses people based on 'need' and not 'housing points' as they used to, and, if yours does the same, then you have a big need because there are four of you in a one bed house. It might also be worth checking with your Local Authority whether or not you can reasonably expect your children, one of each sex, to share a room - although there may be an age for children to attain before they have to have to have separate rooms. I hate to say it, but you have to keep trying, keep pestering the people who can help you so that you keep your name to the fore.
You have not provided enough information. Are you working? Is the one bed house owned by the council? It will be more difficult to get a bigger home as many more people are in need of social housing due to the economic climate.





The first thing to do is get on the council's waiting list and then you have to keep chasing up on the progress. Sometimes you'll be on the waiting list for a long time. A friend of mine ended up taking his complaint all the way to the local government ombudsman before he and his two kids got moved from their one bed flat. You have to be patient, persistent and polite.





Be warned: your situation may not be seen as overcrowding due to the ages of your children. See http://mobile.shelter.org.uk/get_advice/鈥?/a> for more general information.





Good luck!
My son is in the same boat. He and his wife have four kids and another one due in august ( a girl) and they live in a two bedroomed house.


They have 3 boys and a girl. The boys are aged 9,8,2 and the girl is 4. So the girl and youngest boy are sleeping in the parents room and the two boys are in the other bedroom. Girl has bad cough constantly cos of damp.


They have to bid on a house if any available on the website, and if any suitable they are given to the ones who have been on list longest.


Nothing is fair in this country. Makes me mad at times.





Keep pushing your council and Good luck to yous.
Go to your local MP he or she will write a letter for you in support of your move which does hold alot of weight. afterall thats just where Citizens Advice will suggest you go. So go straight to them, might as well get them doing a job for your vote and tax money.





Council housin is notorious I been waiting for years, I have mental health issues but not illness and I have Arthritis they say im on the bottom of the list and they are not obliged to house me although I am now facing homelessness they say hostle or nothing although medical letters to them says put me in a hostle or shelter and I will commit suicide council say homless then. The list deems these groups of people number 1 priority: Drug addicts (including drunkards), pregnant teenage girls, homosexuals and ex-offenders or those newly released. Second priority to them is the homeless who been it for months or years and Newly granted Asylum Seekers (legal ones only) then the rest of us have to wait an undetermined length of time.





Councils never help until someone more powerful than them challenges them legally or forces them to do what they are meant. The law protects the good and says what councils can and cant do but 90% of council chiefs ignore these laws and make their own criteria up. Housing Associations are the worst doe, I live in one right now pay full rent and council tax yet cos my mother wants to move im being made homeless, they will not let me be put on a tenancy cos inm her son even though im (23 turning 24), they make their own policies up and say it is more important than the law, they called me up angry cos my psychiatrist wrote a letter of support backing me and they said they will never give me a tenancy or house me unless a judge forces them to.