Sal B

Had a section 21 so far 2 extensions have been granted the evening before the move date and no one telling me anything, I've paid for things I could moving has become so incredibly expensive being quoted £675-£1500 just for the movers to take my stuff from mine to a storage unit not even 2 miles away storage units costing £235-£312.50 per month with reservation fees and insurance protection and padlocks not being included in those prices all while not knowing if I even need them or not! The council are apparently paying a DHP but the day I was meant to move the mover had not been paid and both of us had been messed about thankfully I have haggled my way into a very kind hearted deal with the moving firms finance directed who has been so helpful and understanding. Without him I don't think I would've had moved at all because even though the council didn't pay him on time to do the move he was willing to move us anyway and he dropped his prices and has wavered fees and even gave me some strength and some faith in humanity back because of how kind he has been to us. I have absolutely no faith that any other company that is as big as theirs would've done this and got messed about as badly as this and still stayed firm on helping us move I thank him so much. The storage unit had also graciously accepted my begging for them to post the move in date on the date of move because I found out the night before and also was kind in wavering the fees and the costs of the extras and even gave me the very best deal he could this is after me haggling my heart out for a few days and still finding it very expensive and unaffordable but the council were saying they will not pay for the storage unit but have done nothing to .help and lied about their intentions for 2 weeks leading up to my end date and not telling us they planned to move us town away from my caring responsibilities and taking my child put of school in emergency accommodation in a hotel in a different unsafe unfamiliar town with no way of affording the travel to take care of my sick mother and taking my child to school I don't drive so it would've meant my child was not learning my mother probably dying from no one taking care of her and the small amount of extra money I get which only just sees me get by removed and being homeless I can't find anywhere for the £947 the gov gives us for rent and can't afford the extra 400+ being asked in my town I'm losing hope my medical is being pushed to the limits from the amount of stress they are forcing me to deal with that they know triggers my conditions and cause me great pain I've had break downs and I'm scared and angry I have nothing to be able to tell my child to comfort her when she asks where we will go and nothing but lies and a false hope of council properties being thrown in my face as the place I live sees homelessness as a category D banding I'm not even getting close to the top of the list and they are telling me to lower my expectations and bid on places I feel are unfit to live in with some properties not even having a photo available to see the front of the property and you have to accept the property even if it's not suitable once seeing or your making yourself intentionally homeless how am I meant to be able to keep affording living out of boxes day to day buying food so I don't have a load of food that will go off due to needing to turn my appliances off the day before the move and then travel to and from another town and extra rent payments because the council don't cover your temporary accommodation fully and even though being no fault of your own you being placed in temporary accommodation means you have to pay to live there and your housing benefit isn't counted towards it and you won't get the extra funds to help. The government needs to help raise the housing allowance to a real life price for the current situation in this country I see single room in shared houses going for £900 and for a single flat £1100 but for 2 bedrooms they are ranging from £1250-£3000 and I heard the other day from my council that the bedroom allowances only go up to 3 bedroom prices of the housing allowance so they expect people needing 4 bedrooms or more have to find them at that very limited amount of money it's not enough it's not fair were all going to end up homeless. Stop lining your pockets Tories and start doing your obligations of keeping the nation out of poverty and actually help instead of trying to make out your helping actually help. I'm so sad about this I have no knowledge of where we are going to live or if me and my 7 year old child are going to live when the landlord finally says 'no sorry you can't have another extension' it's terrifying. Stressful and completely soul destroying that the government allows this and allows councils to get away with doing nothing to help. No contact and the only contact you do get is contradictory of the last person. It's like no one wants to tell me what's going on and just tells me nothing instead while they know all the time what they plan on doing but won't tell you so you can't stop it happening before it's too late.