Published on 12, July, 2020
How does a AS diagnosis help regarding housing (if at all?)
I have been in a rough living situation for about 8 months and before then i was served a non fault S21 which shattered my world after 7 years of being settled in a place. My 'nest' is my safe place and i cannot stand change or the risk of loosing it. It's the foundation of my life and extremely important to me its like an obsession.
Currently i am suffering mentally due to my living situation. So I'm curious now i have an AS diagnosis is it possible to get secure housing or something? What can i get help with or is there nothing?
Thank you
If you’re in England, there is not a point system at all. There is five tests of homelessness..
Being able to evidence your homeless
Being eligible for assistance
Having a priority need (which looks at how vulnerable you are)
whether you have done anything to make yourself intentionally homeless
whether you have a local connection to that area.
if you were served a no fault eviction and the landlord will confirm there were no issues with you as a tenant you wouldn’t be intentionally homeless. The most complicated test is the priority need. If you’re a British citizen your eligible, if you have lived in the authority for 6 out of the last 12 years or 3 out of the last five then you have a local connection to that area (there other things that give you a local connection - close family members and employment).
priority need looks at your vulnerabilities and how well you would cope as street homeless in comparison to a person with no health concerns. So autism won’t give you an automatic priority need, you would have to be able to demonstrate and evidence how it makes your more vulnerable.
we are in a massive housing crisis so this is a huge lack of social\council housing and affordable PRS properties.
good luck with it :) the first step is approaching your local authority but go armed with all the evidence
for council housing there is a points system.for declaring homeless, no.... to get a council house... yes... but you have to also bid for the council house so it doesnt stop at points, you have to apply for each individual house that comes up you dont get placed you have to bid for each and every house that comes on the list..experience; i have been on the council house list twice for wigan, and once for bolton.... think i might still have one of the points sheets somewhere, they send them out every year i think. might have binned it though but it gives you all the points and what you can score points on and over a certain amount of points you get banded into different categories.... probably A B and C if i remember correct
The person said they were homeless after a s21 and living in a rough situation… so the first step would be a homeless application. Which is the process I described.
The process for applying for social/council housing is yes totally different and varies in each authority as to eligibility and priority. There is not a point system in every authority, it is not a generalised thing. Some authority’s may have a point system in order to issue someone a banding, but most don’t, it’s based on certain priority criteria to achieve the right banding for the situation/person.
It doesn’t actually work like that at all. Each authority has different criteria for joining their housing register. So where I live you would have to have a housing need and have lived in the area for 3 out of the last 5 years or 5 out of the last 10. Where you were born doesn’t come into it, and coming from the Middle East doesn’t come into it. You don’t get on the housing list unless you meet that criteria.
Each authority has different criteria. So our neighbouring authority you can join the housing list if you have a housing need and for instance have close family living in the borough. So it is dependent on which borough you approach.
what i find the worst part of it though... is that you can only really be helped in the region you grew up in.i dont think bolton actually accepted me on their council house list. i work in their region but i grew up and lived in the wigan region instead. so apparently bolton didnt want to help me.... although if i was from the middle east theyd give me a free hotel and help, so its ok for people all over the world to come here and get help in any region, but if your from here you cant go anywhere in this country and get help aside from the single region you was born in... its pathetic. free movement for the entire world but if your already here your stuck and locked down to single regions... double standards.