We give up on system
RE ‘Desperate’ Need For Homes Is Highlighted (Bexhill Observer February 10): I’m getting in touch with you as you asked at the end of the article: “What do you think?”
Having been on the housing register for Rother District Council since March 2000 and have never been offered to even look at a property, I find it very frustrating. They changed the way they deal with housing by introducing a system where you can place a bid on a property you are interested in. This was supposed to benefit people on the register. On the system you can look at the history of your bids and see what has happened to the properties. When looking at this recently I noticed that a property I bid on was now let out to someone who had only been on the register since 2008, but was in the same band as myself. Myself, my partner and my two children live in a two-bedroom flat which is cold, damp and suffers with extreme condensation problems. Both my children have asthma and my GP has written to Rother District Council regarding this. Due to the high rents of private landlords and estate agents we have no hope of actually being able to move from these conditions. I am now beginning to give up with this system and thinking of moving out of this area but that would mean having to move the children from the schools they are settled in and moving away from our family and possibly our jobs.
CHERYL BAKER
Beaconsfield Road
Bexhill
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