Friday 20 March 2020

If You Want To Keep Something, You Need To Own It...

An Abbey Wood family are "heartbroken" after learning their home of more than 60 years will go back to the council, after their grandmother's death.
'Their' home? It's a council property.
Veronica Davie, of Panfield Road, sadly died at the beginning of this year, January 9. Ms Davies' granddaughter, Alison Basset, of Grovebury road, says the home should be kept within the family.
Then maybe you should have exercised the right to buy while she was still alive.
Ms Basset could not be classed as a joint tenant on the property, and is currently on band B1 priority for overcrowding and has reportedly been on the housing list for 10 years.
I bet she has some of the usual reasons for...

Yup! Called it!
“Nan would want us to have her house and her grandchildren to grow up there.
“My 17-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son share a room and I share with my nearly 3-year-old.
“My son has autism and my daughter has psychogenic non-epileptic seizures.
“I have had no luck getting re-housed with the council and have continuously been messed about by them."
*sighs*

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Harsh as it may seem it's not their house it belongs to the community and is let out on the basis of need which is only right for a community asset. It costs most of us who want things otherwise many thousands of pounds that take 25 to 30 years hard work and many many sacrifices to pay that off.

Anonymous said...

This sort of thing adds insult to the injury that never in the history of the tenancy was the market rental ever paid, so the community supported them with vast subsidy - money taken off people who generally did have their own home that they paid for AND had to pay council tax under the threat of violence if they didn't.

Anonymous said...

And don't forget renters who had to pay market rates were also subsidizing that lot through council tax.

I am sure when they are out someone deserving who has been on the waiting list for years will be able to....
oops, no! some bearded children straight off a raft are being moving in. Never mind.

JuliaM said...

"Harsh as it may seem it's not their house it belongs to the community..."

Correct! Or rather, the local council.

"...money taken off people who generally did have their own home that they paid for AND had to pay council tax under the threat of violence if they didn't."

Also spot on!

"I am sure when they are out someone deserving who has been on the waiting list for years will be able to....

oops, no! some bearded children straight off a raft are being moving in. Never mind."


Sadly, I fear you're right too.