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Comment on: Tougher means
If the antisocial behaviour social tenants have to suffer was being done to animals there would be such a huge shock horror hue and cry that it would be stopped immediately... But because social tenants are below animals in the eyes of our landlords and governments it is allowed to go on indefintely.
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Comment on: Tougher means
I just had to call again the police about antisocial behaviour of neighbour tenants....I have reported them many times to our housing trust landlord and the police over a period of 20 years... the police insists is up to the housing trust to resolve it... each time new housing trust officers, each time new police officers coming to you with "i do not know the background"... each time telling them is more than 20 years is going on... it used to be I was telling them "it's 10 years that has been going on."... Now it will soon be i will have to change my tune to "it is more than 30 years that it's going on...."
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Comment on: Anti-social tenants face fast track evictions
DaftAida | 22/05/2012 11:06 pm
It is not 'the way' that is lacking, it is the will of the landlords to effect that is lacking. If they state they have a committment to tenants on an equal basis in line with the tenancy agreement, all they have to do is stick to and by that...."...
Twenty years I have been reporting antisocial behaviour in some of the most expreme forms to my housing trust... No doubt if it had been me doing just 1/10 of what a reported I would have been evicted... Landlords do not treat all tenants the same... Might have to do because I complained about the housing trust bad services officers those abusing me have not?... -
Comment on: ALMO offers tenants £29k to buy homes
That's the way to go!... If you want success you got to give incentives not penalties to tenants... At last someone has a bit of sense to see it.
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Comment on: Government to propose £60,000 ‘pay to stay’ limit
The whole issue makes no sense, neither financially nor politically, no socially... social tenants should be encouraged and helped to get well paid jobs and set up business that make good profits and not be undermined with such iniative like this that punish you for trying first and for being successful second... If more and more social tenants will earn that sort of money they will want better homes than the pokey flats and high rise they are leaving in. On that amount of money most of them they will get out of social housing by their own will for better places to live in... Of course there are a few who will choose to stay on because of the community, conenctions, etc, but their number will be negligible... Until the governemnt attitude of punishing rather than rewarding tenants for success changes their polices will keep failing and creating more misery,
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Posted in: HOUSING ASSOCIATION TENANT FAILURE
As a Housing Association tenant. I have for many years been reporting antisocial behaviour from my neighbours, including harassment, assaults, etc. Over the years I have reported this antisocial behaviour through phone calls, emails and faxes countless times to several agencies including Housing Association, police, council. However here I would like to focus on reports to my housing trust. These reports were over many the years to at least a dozen tenancy neighbourhood officers, areas various directors, two chief executives. Various meeting with tenancy officers, managers, directors and experts and even a mediation have not changed anything, indeed made things MUCH worse for me as the only outcome has been putting my life in danger, while all they do pass my case from a tenancy officer to the next and manager to the next and director to the next, etc .
Both last year (by area manager and neighbourhood housing officer) and more recently I have been told that my case each time has to be treated as NEW. That is each time I have to start to fill in again diary sheets, etc. As this seems quite odd that with such a large file of my reports that the Housing Association should have on record stretching at least twenty years that each six months I am dealt with as if I was a NEW case, has my Housing Association been correct in dealing with my situation in this way?
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Posted in: Housing benefit fraud
Yes, you should take a lawyer. Go and see a lawyer, they will do it on legal aid so you don't have to pay. look for a good lawyer who has dealt with similar cases before. Go to your local benefit advice centre is there is one and usually they have a list of lawyers.
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Posted in: Housing benefit fraud
Sorry, I don't know more than that. You have to inquiry and see if there is this possibility with your LA. Whether some or all of them have some discretionary money for loans I am not entirely sure. There are also charities who help to fight people losing their homes and become homeless. But I can't tell you now. If I remember any I will post it. Hopefully someone else reading this board might give you more information than I have. You may inquiry with Shelter, and they might give you some more info.
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Posted in: Housing benefit fraud
Apply for a loan/s to your LA and DHSS. Given your circumstances they would have no excuses to deny it. Then offer to pay whatever you can afford towards arrears, do it in writing and keep copies.