Family evicted from temporary housing after having grandparents over for a brew: ‘It blew my mind’
Family evicted from temporary housing after having grandparents over for a brew: ‘It blew my mind’
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Family evicted from temporary housing after having grandparents over for a brew: ‘It blew my mind’
Family evicted from temporary housing after having grandparents over for a brew: ‘It blew my mind’
Posted by pppppppppppppppppd
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The rules may be totally shit (or in this instance it may be a proportional response to this particular location being unsuitable for guests especially children), but the way to deal with that isn’t to repeatedly break them and then run down in a rage and ‘explode’ at the property manager.
Grandparents coming round is one thing, kids bringing minor friends back, apparently totally unsupervised, is another.
The rules are potentially awful, but surely repeatedly breaching them then harassing employees is not the way to go about effecting change?
If the rule is no non resident guests, an employee who witnesses a resident child attempting to bring a minor in, unsupervised, isn’t something that employee can unilaterally decide is fine. Exploding at said employee is absolutely not the way to go.
While I empathise that they didn’t want to be in temp accomodation, the fact of the matter is that lots of people who end up in temp accomodation have mental health issues, substance abuse issues or are fleeing DV. They have these rules for the protection of the residents as much as anything else.
Middle class family don’t think rules apply to them.
Perfectly normal practice for hostels and temp accommodation to have such rules to protect others.
So she was evicted from what sounded like perfectly adequate accommodation because she had a full on row with the property manager and essentially directly told her she wouldn’t be agreeing to the rules, rules she’s was presumably aware of before she took the placement.
Her son is apparently terribly behaved but she doesn’t seem to think it has anything to do with her behaviour
Her daughter is apparently sullen, possibly because mum moved them to somewhere with worse living conditions because she felt rules didn’t apply to her
She rolled the dice and didn’t win. If she is upset about the rules there are formal ways to get them looked at, breaking them then moaning you’ve faced consequences isn’t one of them. If she breaks the rules then what happens if an unsavoury character brings in their friends and uses the family as an example as precedent what are the council to do?
If the unsavoury characters hang around and harm her kids then mum would no doubt be complaint about that
If it’s all so difficult she can get privately rented accommodation or buy, if she can’t afford that then unfortunately like many people she’s bound to the rules. I’d have thought being grateful you have what seems like a decent roof over your head would be the overarching point of priority but there’s a level of deep seated entitlement and this country isn’t in an economic state to service that
So they’re deemed risky enough to disallow visitors by some councils, and yet others allow some of these locations to still operate as hotels, while not informing potential visitors.Â
I stayed in a travelodge on the outskirts of London that was also being used as temporary accommodation by the local council. The place stank of weed, groups of men outside, doors kicked in, people fighting, etc. I was absolutely stunned that they had the cheek to still accept money from people thinking this was still a hotel.
Right at the bottom, maybe the most important part of the whole article, states just how long the wait for social housing is in the area (which she must be waiting for, if she is anticipating staying in temp accom for years, which is a choice of their own). If they were to look for a rental house, they could be out in sub 6 months, especially if the husband is deemed unfit to work.
Not following the rules and then complaining about the consequences of not following said rules, I just do not understand.
>”We were stuck in a top-floor two-bed flat with a 14-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy and not allowed anybody to see them. It was just beyond me.”
She’s acting like they can’t go outside. The manager said there are shared facilities so non-residents aren’t allowed. How would she feel if her kitchen area or lounge was occupied by a bunch of visitors?