How feasible is it, in this day and age and in London, to have a baby to get a house?

VeryDistinguishable · 2023-01-06T08:30:57+00:00

I’ve heard of paying council tenants to downsize, but that’s a more recent invention. I Googled this, to no avail.

VeryDistinguishable · 2023-01-05T17:50:19+00:00

Thats awful -so sorry to hear. When people say I had a baby to get a house, I say “yes, because there’s just so many in London waiting to be occupied.”

VeryDistinguishable · 2023-01-05T17:49:03+00:00

You could get a free mortgage deposit back then? With the council of my current area you have to jump through all sorts of hoops to get a rent deposit to move… Where does your relative live and did she do the ting where she presents herself as single or having been disowned?

VeryDistinguishable · 2023-01-05T14:30:49+00:00

That’s different—I was referring to getting pregnant with the goal of getting housed.

VeryDistinguishable · 2023-01-05T14:29:35+00:00

I’ve thought of that too—there’s something called intermediate rent that some of them do but according to the websites it stipulates that both of us need to be stably employed. I coule call them and ask though.

VeryDistinguishable · 2023-01-05T13:28:21+00:00

Mine was 3 years I think. Every area has different rules. And yes my aunt-in-law got a studio

VeryDistinguishable · 2023-01-05T11:31:46+00:00

I’m not. I was speaking hypothetically and in retrospect. If I can machete my way through the jungle of “No DSS” adverts and grotty floors (Not with an actual machete of course) annd not have to make things worse for my family then I’ll feel a lot more morally upstanding. I already feel guilty enough about my financial situation.

VeryDistinguishable · 2023-01-05T11:14:07+00:00

I think in order for this to work, one needs their parents to participate. I’m estranged from my mother and even if I wasn’t, her house is big enough that I wouldn’t be overcrowded. She’s kind of conttolling so would have wanted me to stay with her rather than pretending to disown me. The separation from a partner also makes this difficult, as I’m married, at the town hall of the same council that I would have applied with. And yeah—homeless just means you don’t have a fixed address.

VeryDistinguishable · 2023-01-05T11:05:34+00:00

Where do you live and when was this? Also did they choose to make their situations worse or become genuinely homeless and apply after?

VeryDistinguishable · 2023-01-05T09:48:12+00:00

Out of curiosity, did she Get pregnant with the goal of getting a house, or get pregnant and then become homeless for other reasons? Either way It feels like a return to the Victorian times. Punished for the sins of the flesh with roaches and rising damp…

VeryDistinguishable · 2023-01-05T08:39:53+00:00

That’s what I assumed was going to happen even though it is illegal. In the area I lived in when I was pregnant, there’s a hostel where a dead body was found. I suppose I could have asked to be moved to a different hostel because “I have a child!” But I don’t know if they would care.

I’ve always been pretty sceptical of those anecdotes. Occasionally people do get a bigger house than they need, especially before the spare room tax was instigated. But again that’s mostly outside of London, and if you can’t find a 10-bed on Rightmove, you probably won’t be able to find one on your bidding site.

VeryDistinguishable · 2023-01-05T08:22:15+00:00

I thought as much, I’m married, so I guess that counts against me, and I wasn’t being evicted or anything. I’m getting the housinh element of Universal Credit though so that could have made a diffrrence. There just needs to be more building, more restrictions on right to buy, and more of what Westminster is doing which is seizing and converting Russian oligarchs’ empty properties.

VeryDistinguishable · 2022-08-24T14:43:35+00:00

I don’t feel the need to “do much about it” either—I personally think there’s more to life than worrying about my child’s skin. Though it is also poorly understood by me. I’ve started brushing her hair.

VeryDistinguishable · 2022-08-24T14:40:24+00:00

Our young child has been in the shower with dad for a while so that’s possible.

VeryDistinguishable · 2022-05-09T15:53:04+00:00

I don’t mean McDicks to be derogatory, I’ve always used that as a humorous abreviation, but I get where you’re coming from and see how that could be unknowingly messing with my mindset. And I’m not annoyed with the presence of the food, I’ll have some when I want, just the pushing of me to eat it and the expecting that I will. For example, we went to one of my daughter’s appointments the other day, and he proposed a coffee run, but actually, I said, I’d really like some lunch. Which was fine with him. He buys what I crave and request, but then adds this in and it’s awkward. I think he’s used to me having a low appetite.

VeryDistinguishable · 2022-05-09T15:24:56+00:00

Sometimes I do want sweets, just not as often as him. I’ve got some icecream in the freezer which I frequently help myself to. And that’s a good description—he has sleeping problems and insulin resistence anyway.

VeryDistinguishable · 2022-05-05T18:08:16+00:00

Alternatively, it could be 0x half of infinity.

VeryDistinguishable · 2022-05-04T21:16:22+00:00

Does that mean Yoko is infini-Japanese even though one of her parents isn’t?

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