Tip – if you’re in London and struggling and feel like you’re about to go homeless. You’re better off getting away from London, it’s the most expensive place you could be and getting from homeless to affording rent is going to be a mountain to climb. Whereas if you went somewhere more affordable you’d have less of a mountain.
i’d spend my last £50 on getting a train as far north as possible where rents are only a few hundred a month.
It’s almost like there’s some sort of housing crunch.
I would suggest that the more sensible advice (assuming you are british and have recourse to public funds) is to stay put in your current place until your landlord has got a court order to evict you and in the meantime inform the local counsel you are about to be made homeless so they have a duty to put you up somewhere. That may well be up north anyway. In the meantime, start looking for a job and contact housing charities who may be able to assist you.
It’s not just a London problem
Due to increased rents across the sector housing benefit no longer covers the cost of rent in many parts of the UK.
It’s a question of supply and demand. New supply has not increased by much due to regulations, while demand has increased significantly due to 1) growing population, 2) smaller average households (more people living alone, 3) mass immigration, 4) explosion of student population in university cities and towns
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Tip – if you’re in London and struggling and feel like you’re about to go homeless. You’re better off getting away from London, it’s the most expensive place you could be and getting from homeless to affording rent is going to be a mountain to climb. Whereas if you went somewhere more affordable you’d have less of a mountain.
i’d spend my last £50 on getting a train as far north as possible where rents are only a few hundred a month.
It’s almost like there’s some sort of housing crunch.
I would suggest that the more sensible advice (assuming you are british and have recourse to public funds) is to stay put in your current place until your landlord has got a court order to evict you and in the meantime inform the local counsel you are about to be made homeless so they have a duty to put you up somewhere. That may well be up north anyway. In the meantime, start looking for a job and contact housing charities who may be able to assist you.
It’s not just a London problem
Due to increased rents across the sector housing benefit no longer covers the cost of rent in many parts of the UK.
It’s a question of supply and demand. New supply has not increased by much due to regulations, while demand has increased significantly due to 1) growing population, 2) smaller average households (more people living alone, 3) mass immigration, 4) explosion of student population in university cities and towns